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The popularity of stereotypical representations of American Indians in global culture has led to a number of teams in Europe also adopting team names derived from Native Americans. While there are team names in North America derived from other ethnic groups, such as the Boston Celtics, the New York Yankees, the Montreal Canadiens, and the Notre ...
The use of terms and images referring to Native Americans/First Nations as the name or mascot for a sports team is a topic of public controversy in the United States and in Canada. The documents most often cited to justify the trend for change are an advisory opinion by the United States Commission on Civil Rights in 2001 [ 1 ] and a resolution ...
A "big cat" logo was used with the raiders name from the 1930s to the 1970s, when a Native American logo was first used. This was replaced with a "J" with feathers in 2014. The 2022 decision removed the feathers, and the current proposal is to restore a modernized version of the big cat.
What’s at stake with team names like the Redskins? For Native teens, it means lower self-esteem. For whites, it’s the opposite. Looking at the research into mascots with Stephanie Fryberg.
Co-directed by Ben West and Aviva Kempner, "Imagining the Indian" chronicles the battle to persuade professional, college and high school sports teams to shed their offensive nicknames and imagery.
The Erie people were also known as the Eriechronon, Yenresh, Erielhonan, Eriez, Nation du Chat, and Riquéronon. [citation needed] They were also called the Chat ("Cat" in French) or "Long Tail", referring, possibly, to the raccoon tails worn on clothing; however, in Native American cultures across the Eastern Woodlands, the terms "cat" and "long tail" tend to be references to a mythological ...
From the Sacramento river area the Miwok gave the following names of the first spirits: O-let'-te Coyote-man, the Creator; Mol'-luk the Condor, father of Wek'-wek; Wek'-wek the Falcon, son of Mol'-luk and grandson of O-let'-te; Hul'-luk mi-yum'-ko the two beautiful women chiefs of the Star-people; Os-so-so'-li Pleiades, one of the Star-women
Edward A. Goldman reported hearing the name from "several native hunters" in Panama in 1920. It is also reported as a native name for the howler monkey in Nicaragua. [188] Opossum (Didelphimorphia) marsupial: Powhatan: From aposoum ("white animal"), from Proto-Algonquian *wa·p-aʔθemwa ("white dog"), originally referring to the Virginia ...