Cherokee Nation demands apology for tomahawk chops

Boston Herald ^ | September 26, 2012 | Chris Cassidy

[Ole Okie]

That has to be the Oklahoma branch of Cherokees

Yeah, it's the Talequah Cherokees.

I've worked for and with a number of Cherokees. They are fine people.

[Red Badger]

Obviously he has never been to an Atlanta Braves game..................

[VeniVidiVici]

Cherokee Chief Baker takes call from advance scout Fauxcohantus.

[mrsmel]

I say if the rule is that no one but a member of a group can speak for, gesture for, or in any way represent that group, then the same should hold true for whites. Right now we are the only group as a race for whom every other group can tell is what our words really mean, what we're really thinking, etc. Everyone gets to tell us what we said and we what we meant, and they do parse it fine.

[Noamie]

I’m half Cherokee. I say that it’s ok.

Move along.

:)

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

:: The Cherokee Nation is disappointed in and denounces the disrespectful actions of staffers and supporters of Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown ::

The Brown Campaign should simply respond:

“The gestures are not and were not intended to mimic or diminish any activity the Cherokee Nation considers its heritage.

To our knowledge, the simulated “tomahawk chop” and “war whoops” are not a remanant or current symbol of the Cherokee Nation. We await to be corrected that these activities WERE?ARE part of the Cherokee Nation heritage, at which point we will release a statement.”

[eddie willers]

I've worked for and with a number of Cherokees. They are fine people.

I remember when I was just a wee tad, going to the Reservation up in North Carolina with my dad and enjoying a wonderful evening under the stars watching "Unto These Hills".

[Mad Dawgg]

"Yeah. Everyone knows the Cherokee didn’t use tomahawks."

Well they used to, but nowadays they use One Arm Bandits to scalp the white man.

[Melas]

Well, they lost. I guess that’s it.

I think it has more to do with the fact that they didn't consent to the contest in the first place. I have lived on the Navajo reservation for an extended period of time and gotten to know a great many natives there. We might not like to admit it, but they have a strong case. Most of their population killed in wars they did not start, their land stolen in the name of manifest destiny, marched to internment camps like Fort Sumner, and finally herded into worthless pieces of land we call reservations. They absolutely have the right to be bitter.

[dragonblustar]

“The Cherokee Nation is a modern, productive society, and I am blessed to be their chief,”

That's a big Nerp!

Looks like they've evolved into nothing more than a bunch of crybaby whiners who are dependent on government handouts.

[dragonblustar]

Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo.....

[traditional1]

Here we go again...where’s Jane Fonda and Ted Turner on this? (Remember the Atlanta Braves’ fiasco with ‘Tomahawk Chops’?)

[traditional1]

Here we go again...where’s Jane Fonda and Ted Turner on this? (Remember the Atlanta Braves’ fiasco with ‘Tomahawk Chops’?)

[apillar]

Oh no!!! I Guess Scott Brown has lost Massachussets MASSIVE Cherokee vote!

[rhoda_penmark]

“That has to be the Oklahoma branch of Cherokees. The Eastern bunch has pride of self and a sense of humor.”

Well gee, consider how they GOT to Oklahoma in the first place (Trail of Tears). That sure would have cut into anybody’s sense of humor.

[muawiyah]

Way up North just sitting around keeping warm is about half the year ~ doesn't have to be Alaska either.

Miserable climate

[SaxxonWoods]

Do. Not. Apologize.

Continue to rag on Lieawatha. She is the one denigrating NAs and she is the one who stole from them.

[muawiyah]

Actually they weren’t conquered until 1865 with the end of the civil war. just another bunch of souvrn’rs ya know.

[The_Media_never_lie]

The nation’s going to hell in a handbasket, and this loon wants us to appologize for a tomahawk chop.

[SaxxonWoods]

My great great grandmother was scalped by the Commanches, leaving my great grandmother to be raised without a mother.

I don’t hold any grudge about it, that was the times.

Suck it up, NAs. If you can’t handle tomahawk chops and war whoops, go protest the Kansas City Chiefs and the Washington Racist Nicknames.