More than 450 other groups have supported a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell asking him to force Washington’s NFL team to change its name.
On Monday, 15 Native American organizations, advocates and authors signed a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell asking him to force Washington’s NFL team to change its name. By Wednesday, more than 450 other groups had expressed their support.
was the named plaintiff in a federal lawsuit seeking to strip the federal trademark rights from Daniel Snyder's team. But as national conversations about systemic racism have intensified after the death of George Floyd and others, many Native leaders believe change may be coming soon. “Nothing’s happened yet,” Echo Hawk said. “But this is the closest I think Native peoples have come in nearly 30 years.”
Native groups and researchers say there’s more to the story, though. Harvard professor Joseph Gone was part of a research team thatacademic studies on Native American mascots. Although the studies looked at different names, logos and imagery, none of them found that these logos had a positive impact on Native Americans. Gone emphasized that no study can quantify the impacts of every single mascot in use, but that overwhelming evidence showed a negative impact.
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