How Does Amy Stretten Use Native American Imagery?

The Native American Imagery is a beautiful image, so the Native American imagery became the mascot of many companies, clubs, or community events… However, using the Native American imagery for the sport has been a debatable topic for many years. For particular instance, the capital of United State’ football team has been under plenty of pressure to change their mascot and their name, but they asserted that it will never happen. In the article “Appropriating Native American Imagery Honors No One but the Prejudice”, Amy Stretten used her and others stories to establishing credibility for readers and made readers believe that using Native American imagery for sports teams does not “honor” them. Amy Stretten’s writing style and logical facts have made her successful. Amy Stretten begins the article by speaking about her experiences as a Native American. That helps her arguments have more power because not only is she researching and giving the reader facts, she is applying those statistics to her life. It is very important because it makes audiences have more belief about what the author is saying. So that, the article to be more effective. Amy Stretten writes about her story that she studies in a high school whose mascot used Native American imagery. Her friends usually tell her that: “You should feel proud! We’re honoring your …show more content…
“The players call each other ‘redskins’ on the field… How are they going to differentiate the playing field from the school yard? What’s going to stop them from calling my daughter a redskin in the schoolyard? That’s as offensive as using the n-word” (524). This quote is very effective because it makes the audiences realize just how these terms are offensive to the Native American community. Amy Stretten was going from her personal story to the problem of a community to make the article more