What do real Native Americans think about this? Did anyone poll them to find out if they mind having a team named in their honor? Or did MLB and the Cleveland franchise just check with the usual gaggle of crazed white leftists who feel entitled to speak for minorities?
Typical. Remove the Indians, keep the land.
And another bites the dust to warped leftists…
I would have gone with a better name, like The Custodians. Now that’s got some panache!
Better still, if they want a name that rhymes and endear themselves to a minority group how about — The Cleveland Lesbians?
I grew up calling them American Indians.
The more PC term could apply to anybody
born in the USA (or even N, S, or Central America).
Born in Toronto ON—native Canadian
Born in Liverpool England—native Englishman
Born in Boston MA—native American
I am a native American* and prefer the old
name.
*—some ancestors going back to this land
in the 1600s..Eng, some Irish & Scots but
ancestors born in MA for over 300 years
That was my reaction, too. Our indigenous people who were forcefully displaced onto Reservations, and where many remain, were forced by a “guardian” government agency (BIA) that is hated by them to this very day. I would think that Guardians would be insulting and inappropriate.