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As the Kansas City Chiefs secured another Super Bowl berth, a raucous home crowd of 76,000-plus saluted the team by performing their version of the “tomahawk chop,” which was broadcast to a national audience. In that moment, fans of the Washington Commanders might have been thinking: “How is that still okay, but not the ‘Redskins’ name?”

FORT TOTTEN, N.D. - Members of the Spirit Lake Sioux tribe have voted to oppose the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname and logo.

A controversial NCAA decision restricting Florida State University's use of an American Indian mascot was based on incomplete information and will be reconsidered, a top NCAA official said Thursday. Walter Harrison, who chairs the committee that approved a policy directed at 18 schools with "hostile and abusive" American Indian mascots, said FSU has "good grounds" to appeal. Among the reasons, he said, are that the NCAA Executive Committee thought the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma opposed FSU's use of the Seminole image as a mascot. That was based partly on letters the committee received from David Narcomey, a member of the...

Perhaps Myles Brand allowed a tear to run down his cheek after dancing with the Indian nicknames and mascots in his midst. His pretense is in the company of the Hollywood Indian of Italian descent who appeared in the "Keep America Beautiful" commercial of the '70s, shown with a tear after he sees the garbage-strewn waterway and landscape. There is something disingenuous about it all, almost in the manner of Ward Churchill, the wannabe Indian of Boulder, Colo., who plays his dark scholarship merely for effect. One of the problems with finding fault in the Utes is that you are...

Melanie Conner for The New York Times After three years of debate among tribal leaders, 42 alternatives to Squaw Creek have emerged in Sisters, Ore. Olivia Wallulatum, left, prefers "ayayat," or "beautiful." Colleen Roba prefers "choosh," or "water." SISTERS, Ore. - It took two years for members of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs to persuade Oregon lawmakers to remove the word "squaw" from the state's maps, which are filled with places like Squaw Meadow, Squaw Flat and, here in central Oregon, Squaw Creek. Figuring out what to rename these places has proved more complicated. Around the Warm Springs...

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