deltafoxtrot:

Any Reservations About This Mascot?

By Denny McAuliffe

North Side High School in Jackson, Tenn., is home of the Indians, but school officials have taken its Native American mascot one step further: It calls school grounds “The Reservation.”

The sign pictured above saying “Welcome to The Reservation” is painted on a building next to the North Side football field. North Side High School’s Web site displays a photo of a different sign with the same message.

Reznet invites you to leave a comment below and tell the school what you think of the Indians mascot and its claim to be a reservation.

Feel free to use this as a teaching opportunity: There are no reservations or federally recognized tribes in Tennessee, and you could educate school officials — and the students — on what it’s like to live on a real reservation. Invite them over to yours …

We’ll send your comments to the local paper, The Jackson Sun.

No profanities or personal attacks, please. It’s reznet’s policy to delete such comments.

There are four federally non-recognized tribes in Tennessee: the Cumberland Creek Indian Confederation, Cherokee of Lawrence County, Etowah Cherokee Nation and Red Clay Band of S.E. Cherokee Confederacy. Although Tennessee does not recognize any tribes, the state has an official Commission of Indian Affairs.

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Every year, with the opening of the football season, I have the same complaint: the name of the Washington, D.C. football team is obnoxious, racist (against Native Americans) and must be changed. And, every year I receive in response generally positive feedback from regular people who hold the same concern. Yet the team’s name does not change.

There are many of us, D.C.-area residents and beyond, who have argued for years that the name ‘‘Washington Redskins’’ is a racist name that should be changed. Many college teams have removed offensive mascots, teams have changed names for any number of reasons, yet the resistance from the owners of the Washington football team is amazing.

The problem, however, is not just with the owners. It is difficult to exaggerate the level of football support that exists in the D.C. area. From the moment that the pre-season training begins, football starts to overshadow baseball in the media, whether radio, TV or printed. African Americans are major enthusiasts for the Washington football team (unless they happen to be fans of the Dallas Cowboys—which is another story). Yet our enthusiasm seems to blind us to the name of the team and what it represents.

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For Amercian Indians, the symbols have been around so long that we scarcely notice it. Recently, I saw the most remarkable book cover. It was a hoot. The front was emblazoned with the title, “To Tame a Savage.”

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Saturday October 4, 2008, some of the AND1 streetball legends will tour to Macy at the Omaha Nation Public School Gym to go toe to toe with the NES Allstars.

Sponsored by Hustle Up and Native Elite Sports, you will see one of the hottest streetball players in the world “Hotsauce,” plus Spyda, 50, Highrizer, Springs, Big Swoal, Pat Da Rock, and many more!

Doors open at 6pm, game time is at 7pm. For ticket info and additional reservation tour dates, call (402) 837-5288 or log onto:www.HustleUpStreetball.com or visit this site!

This tour promotes education awareness, non-violence, and anti-gang/drug activities in the Native American Community! 

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shimmerandshine:

I was recently asked what was so wrong with a team named the ‘Cleveland Indians’. I presented him with this picture. And fuck Zee Williams , I’m about to start on his ass next. Sometimes, people throughly don’t understand and others KNOW and are blatantly ignorant about it regardless - ie Zee Williams.

Would it be okay for non-blacks to wear black face or for non-Asians to make slanted eyes or for people to go around being stereotypical Hispanics ? No, these things would be considered ‘racist’. But apparently it’s okay to put a feather in your hair , rub on some red paint and mock a supposedly ‘ancient’ race. Hello!! We’re still here, sorry to burst your bubble.And we don’t go around wearing feathers and holding tomahawks. If it’s okay to mock one race, who’s to say it won’t be okay for other races?

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Host to nearly 1,000 Native youth baseball and softball players and coaches, their families and friends, the Arizona Diamondbacks Inter-Tribal Youth Baseball Tournament and inaugural Native American Baseball Invitational has been deemed a success.

The event was conceived with noble beginnings 10 years ago, stemming from the Diamondbacks’ hope to create a grass-roots program benefiting Native youth in the Southwest, Diamondbacks representative Amy Buchan explained.

”It’s a way for us to promote youth baseball on the reservation,” she said.

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The first-ever North American Indigenous Games were held in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1990, with approximately 3,000 participants. In less than two decades, the number of sport and cultural participants has tripled, to over 9,000.

By encouraging Indigenous youth to participate in athletic competition, these Games have become a vehicle for promoting healthier lifestyles and strengthened relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples of North America.

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