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Zonie63 -> RE: Will Daniel Snyder and the NFL ever wake up? (5/28/2014 8:10:56 AM)
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Was the people who said alot of native americans are offended actually native americans or white guilt "liberals"
Perhaps you should research that a bit before looking like even more of a fool than you did with your Memorial day thread.
I said i was sorry about that thread i wasnt thinking, plus people ignored when i corrected myself and said i was trying to say that i dont like it when people lump the rest of the army with those who did those war crimes. I am never gonna live it down, am i?
Anyway, i was asking a legitimate question, are native americans actually complaining and wanting the name change? because so far all i heard complaining is people who are not native americans.
Check with these guys
http://www.ncai.org/
I didn't see anything on that page that even mentioned the subject. Maybe you could be a little more specific.
After doing a brief search, I found a couple of interesting articles addressing the subject.
http://mmqb.si.com/2014/04/03/washington-nfl-team-name-debate/7/
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Daniel Snyder says it honors the heritage of Native Americans; critics consider it nothing less than a racist slur. We set out to gauge the real sentiment regarding the name ‘Redskins’ among Native American leaders and in grass-roots tribal communities around the country. The short answer: It’s complicated
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Since last fall, Snyder and his staff spoke with 400 tribal leaders, according to his open letter, and started more than 40 projects in Native American communities. As word of their trips trickled back to NCAI headquarters, many tribes reported that team officials did not ask how they felt about the name.
This was the case during a February visit to the Blackfeet Reservation in northwestern Montana, up near the Canadian border. Snyder was not present, but team representatives spent about four hours with members of the tribal council, discussing children’s programs and economic development. They made suggestions for an empty five-building industrial park the tribe is trying to turn into a foreign trade zone to create new jobs.
Leon Vielle, who participated in the meetings, admits he might not have wanted to take part if the focus had been on the team name. But the industrial park has been his pet project, so he put his strong feelings against the name aside to help his community. “I realize the controversy with the name,” he says, “but one of the things is it’s brought some attention to something that is lacking in Indian country, that is lacking within our federal government. If it takes [Snyder] to help us, then fine. We’re not looking for a handout, we’re looking for a hand up.”
The team’s approach has merit—taking the time to listen to the needs and challenges many Native American communities face. Snyder wrote in his letter that he “wanted and needed to hear firsthand what Native Americans truly thought of our name, our logo, and whether we were, in fact, upholding the principle of respect in regard to the Native American community.” The team did not describe how it chose the communities it visited, or the scope of its financial commitment. Onondaga Nation general counsel Joe Heath says Snyder was invited to their community—one of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, along with the Oneida Nation, which launched the “Change the Mascot” campaign—but it was not one of the trips the team made. Nor was the San Carlos Apache Reservation, whose tribal council passed a resolution in October denouncing the “Redskins” mascot as “deeply offensive.” Says San Carlos Apache vice chair John Bush, “I’d love to share my thoughts with them.” (A team spokesman did not make Snyder available for an interview with The MMQB.)
Snyder’s outreach pleasantly surprised his fellow owners at the NFL meetings in March. Indian country, however, has been more skeptical. “You never took interest in us, going on a few decades,” says Vielle’s daughter, Stephanie, a U.S. Marine veteran who is now attending college at the University of Texas at Arlington. “I’m glad they’re helping us now, but that’s taking advantage of a poor community. It shouldn’t be shut-your-face money.”
http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yourallekiskivalley/yourallekiskivalleymore/6171249-74/native-redskins-american#axzz331JqGhWC
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Allen, in a response to the Senate's top Democrat, wrote that the Redskins nickname was “respectful” toward Native Americans.
Tekakwitha Webb of Greenville does not buy it.
She and her husband, Spyder, are Cherokee. They perform eastern-style Cherokee singing and drumming for ceremonies and dancing, which they did for the Native American Gathering in Harmar sponsored by the Western Pennsylvania Native American Association.
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