[Inyo-Mono]

As one of the few American Indians on FR, let me say that this is the kind of crap that gives us a bad name. This and the bitching about sports teams names like Warriors, Braves, etc. just piss me off. There are plenty of us out here that feel this way but you only see the ones that the media grabs on to like this idiot. As for me, I love the Braves and the Redskins, and think that Columbus was a great man.

I hear you! In a nearby town we have a high school sports team named the Warriors. The school gym has a huge painting on the inside wall of an Indian chief’s profile with a full plains headdress on. The school student body is probably close to 70% American Indian and during basketball and volleyball games the team does a warrior dance, stomping on the hardwood floor, with tom-toms beating in the background. It is very intimidating to the opposing teams and makes me swell with pride to see our country’s wonderful American Indian culture in action.

[fish hawk]

Up in N. Calif. in my home town the high school is also the Warriors. About every couple of years someone gets their shorts in a bunch and they have a county vote and each time the “Warriors” logo stays. Never the less these idiots try again and again and again and it we keep voting them down.