Sports Mascots Honor the Native American Indian

This year is 1991. In the 40th year Atlanta Braves has finished their first autumn classic tour, Washington Redskins is undefeated, they are in the third super bowl. Sports fans are trying to succeed throughout the eastern coastal area - and American Indians are at a loss. This year I witnessed the peak of protest actions using American Indian theme mascot. There are two major professional sports teams that produce top page news throughout the country, many of us listen to complaints from the American Indian for the first time. Suddenly thanks to the names of many Americans, the voices of thousands of demonstrators

For many years many people have told that sports teams such as Native American Mascot, Cleveland Indian, Chicago Blackhawks, Florida Seminole and others continue to have stereotypes for indigenous peoples. Others think these mascots are harmless; if so, they respect and respect the history of Native Americans and symbolize respect and respect. Probably because of a survey conducted last year by the Washington Post, 90% of the American Indians studied did not feel offended by the name of Red Skin. Ever since then, defenders of this name, including team owner Daniel Snyder, reviewed the controversy and completed it. Discussion of "stick and stone" submitted by opinion poll is completely reasonable from the viewpoint of self defense. After all, Native American must withstand even worse crime than mascot.

In the 1940's the National Council of Indians (NCAI) launched a campaign to eliminate the stereotype of Native American negative media. Over time, the event began focusing on the sports world Indian name and mascot. NCAI argues that teams with mascots like Brave and Reds will continue to have negative stereotypes of Native Americans and will respect their native traditions and ceremonies. Respecting local people, "American Football League Washington" Red Skins "and Kansas City" Emirates ", American Major League" Cleveland "" Indian "and" Atlanta "Braves, and NHL's Chicago Blackhawks and other American sports Companies continue to benefit from harmful stereotypes, whites' superiority and isolation is a matter of course. "

As the oldest, largest and most representative American Indian and Alaska Aboriginal defense group in the United States, NCAI clearly opposed the contempt and harmful stereotypes for indigenous people (including sports mascot) in media and popular culture for a long time It was. It is impressive. In 1968, NCAI began a campaign tackling the stereotype of pop culture, media and sports circles. Since the beginning of this effort, great progress and support have been made to end the era of harmful "Indian" mascot in sports.