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1909 - first publication of the "Smoking the Pipe of Peace" at Miami University

1888 - Nov.



In the 1860's, Miami University (Oh) was already appropriating Native American culture with the "Smoking the Pipe of Peace" - a popular tradition during Commencement Week Class Day activities. "Sachems" (often dressed as "Indian Chiefs") would roast other students verbally, and then share in the pipe to make peace.

This tradition was first seen in a 1909 issue of The Miami Student.









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1915, January 16th - Cleveland wants a new name

Does anybody else wonder why you would pull in sporting writers to help name a baseball team? And given THEY had so much input, wouldn't they be choosing a name that they could use creatively in their articles? And if they, say, picked the 'Indians' - they could conjure up headlines about scalping, massacres, slaughtering, and going off the reservation... right???
New Castle Herald
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1920, May 19th - Indians and their war paint

The Ogden Standard Examiner, 5.19.1920

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1920, October 6th - Fake Indians are warhooping and scalping along their war path

Those sports writers sure had a way with words.
Too bad they kept using the same words over and over - for more than a century.

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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 10/6/1920

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1920, Oct 9. - war paint

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The Edwardsville Intelligencer  10/9/1920

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1921, September 24 - pranced the war dance

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The Kansas City Kansan  9/24/1921

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1922 - Jim Thorpe


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1926 - Students dressed as "blanketed Indians" perform the teams Scalp Song.

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In 1926, this image by Frank Snyder appeared in the Alumni Newsletter. It's of the Miami University Glee Club performing the Scalp Song prior to a football game. These singers would perform dressed in blankets, and to the beat of a tom-tom. The caption read, “The Miami Men’s Chorus, dressed in feathered headgear and bright blankets, from under which linen knickers and golf-socks incongruously peeped out, sang the stirring war song of the Tribe.” 

Scalp Song Lyrics (1916)

The tribes go forth to war,
Their scalp songs ring afar;
Bright the blood-red camp-fires gleaming,
Mad with thirst the war-hawks screaming;
Signal smoke soars high,
Beckons in the sky,
Old men shake their calabashes,
Warriors dance amid the ashes,
Maidens sobbing, war-drums throbbing,
War!
Far and wide their host is scattered,
Spears are broken, shields are battered;
Miami! Yuh! Yuh! Yuh! Yuh!
Miami! Yuh! Yuh! Yuh! Yuh!
Race them, chase them, pound them, hound them
Wow!
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1927 American Indians visiting Oxford

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1963. "Great White Fathers" of the Hillsboro Indians. With war paint, Indian braves, scalping parties, and White Man's Magic.

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1963, Sep. 6  - The Press Gazette. 

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1930's images of students at Miami University



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1938 - Miami University in Ohio starts yet another Indian tradition

 The marching band at Miami University (Ohio) was formed in 1937, with the inclusion of an Indian-theme. It included two "Indian dancers" with tom-toms to play to the crowd, along with the new drum-majors and majorettes. The band wrote the "Scalp Song" and the dancers would entertain with a "war dance."

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Other photos from this time, that have been linked to Miami University, are below (1938).

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1942, June 2 - In Logan Ohio, the Mingos play ball

This Logan, Ohio school is named after Chief Logan. I have lived near this county my entire life and not once have I come across any child who learned anything about this Chief, except that the town is named after him.
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The Logan Daily News   6/26/1942

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1942, August 31 - Miami Indians went into their war dance

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1942, August 31.   The Kokomo Tribune

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1942, October 11 Tom-toms, war dances and Indian yells at the Coshocton football game

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The Times Recorder   10/11/1942

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1943, February 18th - in Cochocton Ohio

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The Cochocton Tribune   2/18/1943

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1945 Miami University (Ohio)

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1945-1946 Tomahawk - of the Miami Redskins

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1945-46  Miami University Redskins

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1947 - the Tomahawk magazine from Miami University (Ohio) - mascot was the Redskins

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1948 Miami University puts out the Tomahawk - and uses a cartoon character of an Indian - named Hiawabop

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