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Article: "Our people were rounded up, kids stolen from their families, sent to boarding schools … and stripped of their culture and identity,” said Rhonda LeValdo, a Haskell Indian Nations University professor, Acoma Pueblo activist and founder of the Not In Our Honor coalition.
“Their religion was outlawed, they could not practice their ceremonies, they couldn't sing their songs,” LeValdo said. “So why is it OK for the fans in Kansas City to play Indian, when our people weren't allowed to be Indian?”

I would like to encourage Ms. LeValdo to take her crusade against 'cultural appropriation' back home. The Acoma nation operates a casino, hotel, and several gas stations, all of which are types of businesses that originated in other cultures. She should suggest to the tribal government that those businesses be sold, or better yet, torn down (since they are located on sovereign tribal land). After all, she wouldn't want any of the Acoma folks "to play white man", would she? That would look way to hypocritical!

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Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland is from a neighboring Pueblo, Laguna, and the first thing she did as DOI secretary was shut down oil and gas leasing on Federal lands. The second thing she did was identify Indian names on Anglo landmarks and require those considered derogatory be renamed. Names like Squaw Creek in Colorado and Indian Gardens in the Grand Canyon have been renamed, including 28 names in Colorado, 67 in Arizona and hundreds more in other states.
https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/all-official-sq-names