Thursday, October 8, 2009
I think the issue is that Native Americans are such a small minority group. There are few groups supporting the anti-mascot cause, and supporting native american groups in general. For largere minority groups there are organizations that support their advancement, such as the NAACP for African Americans. I'm not sure if there is a group like this for Native Americans but if there is its much less known. I feel that the issue has been overlooked to an extent because there are no large groups protesting it.
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Agreed, also children grow up in a learning environment that only briefly covers the history and culture of Native Americans. Therefore children and people in general have these skewed views of Native American tradition through sports teams Mascots. I am not sure if teams such as the Washington Redskins and Kansas City Chiefs actually know the exact history of the culture in which they are trying to represent.
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