Mary Phillips of the Laguna Pueblo Tribe of New Mexico and Omaha Tribe of Nebraska describes the excitement of the Washington Football Team’s name change after years of advocacy.
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No they didn’t. Those tribes are not real tribes. They were created for political reasons. 90% of Native Americans were Redskins and Chiefs fans. And in fact…the number one nickname of High School teams on reservations,, are the Redskims
lets go commies
So the Redskins logo was designed by who again?
And if it truly was derogatory, then what were some of the names American Indians had for Europeans? I guess pale face or whiteskin should be considered offensive, or maybe they're just that simple in meaning – like redskin.
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Should have stayed the R e d s k I n s
As a native american it's fucking bullshit we can't say the nword but we can say redskins.
Lies!!! Natives COULD CARE LESS ABOUT THIS NAME CRAP
No one had a problem with the name…They were named after Native Americans in admiration.
Just make it Washington Whiteys. Liberals won't have a problem with that, I promise!
So when they gonna push for kansas city to do the same?!?!?!?
Indians were conquered, defeated and overpowered by the white man, deal with it
PINKY POWER ARE THE REAL ENEMY of the world. Colonialism is dead.
Unless you're Native American, you came from someplace else. – B.Obama.
Deb Haaland is 35th generation while Traitor Trump is only 2nd generation.
Why are the Chiefs still the chiefs?and Kansas Cuty fans still continue with that Indian chant. Disrespectful
I bet neither of you watch football and this name fucking sucks
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Correction: Native Americans didn’t push for the name change, white liberals did.
Not sure who this woman is but all the native Americans I've talked to and it's considerable are insulted that they changed their name from the redskins. So one woman of question don't speak for all native Americans. Put it back, Redskins! Quit insulting us!
Fake news. Native Americans are NOT pleased with the team name. It's a complete INSULT and wants the Redskins name back on the table and screw racism BS. 😡😤
To all libs… Go love yourself and let’s go Brandon, I agree!!!!!
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I’m a member of the Standing Rock Souix Tribe and I never advocated for this garabage.
This ONE OF THE BIGGEST LIES IN THE NFL THE NATIVE AMERICANS NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WITH THE NAME WE KNOW WHY YOU WANTED TO CHANGE
They should have kept the name but drop the Indian mascot and used a football(red pig skin) or a hogg(skins)as a mascot.
How about the Washington fore skins lol
I actually heard that native Americans had no problem with the name Red Skins, another fake news story
It should have been the Washington Red Wolves.
It seems like Native Americans takes their culture very serious.
40 members of Washington Football organization involved in sex scandal with cheerleaders.So they changed their name and got Jon
Gruden fired,who never even coached or GM d there.Nothing to see
Here,just another corrupt organization but they changed their name
Washington Snowflakes would be fitting..
Not 1 Native American I know gave any fucks about the redskins
Washington department of football services
Change it to the washington crime wave
And those 5 people got their way.
So we went from the colonized to the colonizers. Exciting!
Why couldn’t it have been the Sentinels.
It's an okay name, not as cool as the RAVENS though !!!!!!!
the name originated with the Boston Redskins they should have kept the name and change the logo from some loser Indian and just used the red potato Washington Redskins
Americans would cry if it were about white black or Asian people
But when it's native Americans they have every excuse of why it's "okay"
How about calling the team the Washington rasict.or the Washington PALE FACES.
That’s a dumb new name.
Washington COMMUNISTS
They should have kept the racist name
NO THEY DIDNT
Native Americans chose the name and logo in the dmv. Native Americans on the west coast don’t represent all natives. Next they’ll say commanders is racist because they killed native Americans
there has to be native americans who disagree with this
Not crazy about the "Commanders" name. Probably should have retained the "Red" portion of the name and added something similar to "Skins" like… "Skies" I think. "Washington Redskins" to "Washington Red Skies" would have been an easy transition.
The Washington Football Team was a perfectly cromulent name.
So they decided to name the team after the presidents dog. So woke and brave and stupid.