Native American Mascots

I am really torn about this subject- and the video in class today made me even more confused on where I stand on the subject. Charlene Teters gave me a different perspective on things- I had a hard time seeing where Native Americans were finding all of the offense in teams using them as mascots because I had always looked at it as a form of honor. Teams usually pick things to represent them that are tough, strong, and that can prevail in "battle" aka a game/match/whatever. But after watching the video today I guess I could sort of see why she took offense to the mascot dancing and parading around to entertain a crowd. At the same time- I found it really interesting and kind of cool that the school had talks to inform the students about the Native American culture, especially since they had been doing it long before Charlene started the protests. Someone brought up a good point in an earlier post about how his high school actually went and asked the group of Native Americans how they felt about the school using their name and they didn't really seem to mind at all. Maybe this is a good approach to figuring out if this is really a highly offensive issue to Native Americans today.