The term "Redskin" was often used in newspaper stories, headlines and advertising throughout the 1800's. Though it was mostly meant in a derogatory way, it was interchangeable in some papers with the word "Indian," and even then it wasn't used in a flattering manner.
Showing posts with label Native Stereotyping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Native Stereotyping. Show all posts
1899, December 22 - When Carlisle athletes didn't meet California's expectations
In late 1899, the Carlisle Indian boarding school athletes traveled from Pennsylvania to California - the longest cross-country trip of that time ever made by a football team - and the San Francisco Chronicle illustrated their expectations as to what these young gentlemen would look like: barefeet or moccasins, fringed leggings of no pants at all, and each with feathers in their hair and blankets across their shoulders. But what walked off the train were young men in modern clothing, carrying suitcases and - apparently surprising those of the newspaper - pretty much looking like everybody else.
Doesn't like publishers depicting American Indians as blood-thirsty scalpers
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| The New York Times. July 1, 1910 |
1911, July 18th - The Wild West
Native people were often put on display for Wild West shows, as the article states, "decked out in their bravest and most gorgeous apparel a curious crowd of all ages was gathered." ....
It is important to note that the "white children" were dressed as Indians, and the attire included: fringed hunting shirts, moccasins, and feathered headdresses. And the Boy Scouts were also there - and dressed up as Indians, no less.
Read the entire article below:
1912, June 6 - Scalping was real. Hunting people was real. Murder for money was real.
END THE TOMAHAWK CHOP!
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| 6/6/1912 The Lynden Tribune |
1921, July 17th - Indian woman in 1921 hated the fake Indians imitating war whoops, putting on a show. It made her blood boil.
For those people who say American Indians haven't said anything about being mocked for non-Indian entertainment, so why change things now -- then explain this. Yet ANOTHER early article with an indigenous person upset over being mimicked and mocked purely for a "show."
1971, Nov 17th the tribal customs of their ancestors "were being used to feed the fantasies of the insensitive."
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American Indian students at Dartmouth College said the practice (of using Indian mascots to do imitation dances, etc) were insulting because the tribal customs of their ancestors "were being used to feed the fantasies of the insensitive."
"Too many people in this country still think of Indians as savages doing war dances and wearing feathered headdresses and having two-word vocabulries: 'How and Ugh.' People in sports are as responsible as anybody for perpetuating these illusions, with their Indian mascots and their half-time shows and their Indian nicknames." ~ Bill Yellowtail
Other versions of this article:
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| Dixon Evening Telegraph 9/28/1971 |
1986, July 16th - count the cliches
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| The Index Journal 7/16/1986 |
1. Loincloth
2. Victory dance
3. Screaming like a wild Indian
4. from his teepee
5. Reservation
2001 Feb 12th - "It's morally wrong to use an ethnic race as a mascot."
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| The Gaffney Ledger 2/12/2001 |
"It is morally wrong to use an ethnic race as a mascot," said Robert Kelly, director of the South Carolina chapter of the American Indian Movement.
"To the native people, the mascot is a symbol of genocide," said Christine Rose, founder of Students and Teachers Advocating Respect and Against Racism. She also said that: It's a constant reminder to Native American students that their culture has been turned into a stereotype. For non-native students it teaches intolerance.
2001, November 10 - Sports, Racism and Violence. Evidence that they all swim in the same foul pool.
On Saturday, November 10, 2001, between 1:00-2:00 p.m., a racist note was left on our car in Sam's Club parking lot in Florence, Kentucky.
The car is a station wagan and has signs and bumper stickers that read "Frybread Power," "Honor Native Treaty Rights"—and "Indians are People, Not Mascots."
When we returned to our car, we found the following note:
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I AGREE!
INDIANS LIVED HERE FOR 25,000 YEARS AND LOST IT ALL TO EUROPEANS IN A BRIEF TIME.
NOBODY SHOULD NAME A SPORTS TEAM AFTER THOSE FUCKING LOSERS LETS ERASE INDIANS FROM OUR COLLECTIVE MEMORY!
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Always,
Alice and Randy Huffman
American Indian Movement Support Group of Ohio and Northern Kentucky
http://aim_support.tripod.com/
"How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right." - Black Hawk (Sauk)
Source: http://www.bluecorncomics.com/huntseas.htm
The car is a station wagan and has signs and bumper stickers that read "Frybread Power," "Honor Native Treaty Rights"—and "Indians are People, Not Mascots."
When we returned to our car, we found the following note:
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| November 10, 2001 |
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I AGREE!
INDIANS LIVED HERE FOR 25,000 YEARS AND LOST IT ALL TO EUROPEANS IN A BRIEF TIME.
NOBODY SHOULD NAME A SPORTS TEAM AFTER THOSE FUCKING LOSERS LETS ERASE INDIANS FROM OUR COLLECTIVE MEMORY!
======================
Always,
Alice and Randy Huffman
American Indian Movement Support Group of Ohio and Northern Kentucky
http://aim_support.tripod.com/
"How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right." - Black Hawk (Sauk)
Source: http://www.bluecorncomics.com/huntseas.htm
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