Mascot

The article “Indian Mascots-You’re Out” by Jack Shakley, was published in the Los Angeles Times in August 2011. The author argues the issues of sport teams having Native American names. The author wrote the article due to more and more Native Americans protesting at stadiums. With the article being divided into four sections. It was pretty straight forward. Shakley opens with history of his first encounter on the subject at matter. Secondly, he states how some of the organizations who have these…

There are many freedoms And rights granted to us,some of which were fought for such as the first few amendments after we,The US beat the British or when women finally were allowed to vote.Even fighting against discriminatory laws put in place by racist people like blacks being told to celebrate the emancipation of the US from the British when the blacks were still slaves to the whites.But during the 1800’s some of these rights and amendments were kept from immigrants and slaves,even basic human…

Disgrace In The Wrong Place Today in the United States almost 900 schools and organizations have Native American mascots, compared to the 3,000 that were around in the 1960’s. (Potenza) The battle over the Native Americans mascots being offensive has lasted over half of a century. It is considered to be highly offensive and racist, mostly because of the false image of Native Americans that is produced by teams. (Anastasia) While schools are more prone to change their names out of respect,…

Education’s Role in the Indian Mascot Issue,” art educator Elizabeth M. Delacruz attempts to find an explanation for the popularity of Indian mascots by selecting cases and examining the history of the issue. She states 1500 public schools in the United States use Indian mascots. While these schools continue to represent their mascots, the disturbing past of public schools’ early development of the Indian mascots hides behind closed doors. In the 1920s, Indian mascots were developed by White…

Whose Honor video because they always make the argument that mascots aren’t hurting anyone. Additionally, I think this film would have the most impact because my high school, Maconaquah High School, still has a mascot called “the Brave” and at sports games, like football and basketball, they still wave their arms in the motion of a tomahawk chop. Watching Charlene Peters tell her story about her protest of the University of Illinois mascot, Chief Illiniwek was very moving, especially when she…

The release reads, “Colleges and universities may adopt any mascot that they wish, as that is an institutional matter, but as a national association, we believe that mascots, nicknames or images deemed hostile or abusive in terms of race, ethnicity or national origin should not be visible at the championship events that we control," (NCAA 2005). The release goes on…

used as mascots for sports teams of all types and of all levels. There are countless high school, college, and professional athletic teams that label themselves as the Indians or have mascots that are known as Indians. Since the 1960s, people have been fighting this injustice by trying to abolish Indian mascots on sports teams. The 1970 abolishment of “Little Red”, the OU Indian mascot sparked a chain of Indian mascots that have been banned in sports since then (Tramel, 2002). The once mascot…

professional sports teams should not use names and mascots that are offensive and racist to Native Americans. The Cleveland Indians settled on Indians for their new nickname in 1901 (History…

financial gain. The United States census of 2010 shows that Americans Indians only make up 1.7 percent of the population in America; therefore, the majority rules in this controversy. The general public develops negative stereotypes from these mascots and names. The mascots depict Native Americans in a negative way. Several of the images are stereotypical,…

that “one has to ask, who is being honored by Native American mascots, Native Americans or those who subdued Native Americans” (qtd in King, Handbook 25). However, these fans continue to “assert that naming teams after Indians is a positive way to honor them,” (Spindel 16). Jackson B. Miller elaborates on this mindset by suggesting that “fans, owners, and other individuals affiliated with teams that use Native American symbols and mascots are resistant to change because, in their minds, to…