[RonF]

First, their uncritical acceptance of the entymology of "redskins", without checking primary sources themselves, is suspect.

Secondly, I wonder if they're going to call the Chicago Blackhawks of the NHL "Chicago"? The Chicago Blackhawks were named as such to honor a specific Native American individual from the Chicago area. The logo is a reasonably accurate depiction of a Native American in profile (even if the feathers were never colored like that), and the team has never adopted a mascot or allowed any caricactures or other bastardizations of the logo or the name.

[Right Wing Professor]

First, their uncritical acceptance of the entymology of "redskins", without checking primary sources themselves, is suspect.

Agreed. The OED lists the first use of 'redskin' in 1699. While scalping went on before that - after all, the Indians themselves invented it - the first bounty, as far as I know, wasn't offered in English America until 1703, and the practice really didn't take off (so to speak) until the French and Indian War. The guy who first proposed the 'scalp' theory dates the word to 1800, which is way too late.