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Both Americans and Europeans have historically called Native Americans "Red Indians". The term was largely used in the 18th to 20th centuries, partially based on the color metaphors for race which colonists and settlers historically used in North America and Europe, and also to distinguish Native Americans from the Indian people of India.
Public protest of the name began in 1968, with a resolution by the National Congress of American Indians. [59] Native American groups and their supporters argue that since they view the word redskin as offensive, it is inappropriate for an NFL team to continue to use it, regardless of whether any offense is intended. [26] [60] [61]
Beyond its history as the 'Dark and Bloody Ground,' Kentucky has a long, rich history of indigenous people living here.
Native Americans faced racism and prejudice for hundreds of years, and they both increased after the American Civil War. Like African Americans, Native Americans were subjected to Jim Crow Laws and racial segregation in the Deep South especially after they were classified as citizens after the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.
One of the many ways Native American influence shines through the United States is in our place names.
David Cremeans, principal chief of the Native American Indian Foundation of West Virginia, views the name Redskins as having a hurtful history. Chief Cremeans does not seek to change the name of the mascot, and instead he considers it way to help non-natives to learn about Native American culture. [148]
The stereotyping of American Indians must be understood in the context of history which includes conquest, forced displacement, and organized efforts to eradicate native cultures, such as the boarding schools of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which separated young Native Americans from their families to educate and to assimilate them ...
A roadside historical marker near Clear Lake describes the mass killing of Indigenous people, mostly women and children, by U.S. soldiers in 1850.