My ancestry is Scots/Irish and AniYunWiya (Cherokee)...
Personally, I think all this complaining about nicknames and mascots is being done by people who need to have something to bitch about because their own lives are worth little...
Love your post, I have some Nanaimo in our family. Proud of it, but this was not always true. My grandmother did her best to pass as a white American although one look at her and you knew she was of the “First Peoples”.
She married a US Citizen when she was 16 in British Columbia and was brought to Washington State.
While at college, (Cal Berkeley) we were rivals of the Stanford Indians. Now they are the Cardinals and their mascot is a tree. What is happening?