Yet another disgusting demonstration by the left. White liberals telling minorities how they should think and feel. It's just so appalling. Reminds me of @PaoliLion
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/c...-calf-former-face-redskins-support-nationwide
Celebrated Blackfeet chief John Two Guns White Calf was sacrificed on the altar of cancel culture.
Now an effort to save the indigenous hero's legacy as well as larger Native history from a woke agenda is beginning to spread nationwide.
White Calf was the face of the NFL’s Washington Redskins for 48 years. Before receiving that honor, he was one of the most famous Native Americans of the 20th century.
But then his name, image, achievements — his very existence, really — were erased by the politically connected National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), headquartered in Washington, D.C.
White Calf was erased from the NFL, too. The Redskins, under mounting pressure fueled in large part by the NCAI, dumped its White Calf portrait logo in 2020 and adopted the name Commanders in 2021.
"The Redskins were the only minority representation in the entire NFL and it was a real person, not a mascot," historian Andre Billeaudeaux of San Diego, California, the author of "How the Redskins Got Their Name," told Fox News Digital in an interview.
The NCAI counts among its benefactors the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundations. American taxpayers also fund the group.
It receives support from seven federal bureaucracies, including the Department of Defense, according to its own website, as Fox News Digital previously reported.
Beyond the removal of Native logos and representations in pro sports, the NCAI "has tracked the retirement of more than 200 unsanctioned Native ‘themed’ mascots since 2019, and has supported legislation banning the use of these mascots in multiple states," the group said in a statement last year to Fox News Digital.
Yet "these decisions never have popular support," said Eunice Davidson, a Dakota Sioux and president of the Native American Guardians Association (NAGA), to Fox News Digital last week.
Many of those images were founded up to a century ago to celebrate local Native heritage — and not all were mascots.
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The newer woke NCAI elevated its assault on Native American images in 2013, when it published a report dramatically called "Ending the Legacy of Racism in Sports & The Era of Harmful ‘Indian’ Sports Mascots."
The 29-page dissertation included a caustic 3,560-word history of the Redskins and its "legacy of racism."
Yet the NCAI Redskins' narrative is missing one notable name. It fails to mention Chief Two Guns White Calf — the face of the Redskins franchise for 48 years.
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/c...-calf-former-face-redskins-support-nationwide
Celebrated Blackfeet chief John Two Guns White Calf was sacrificed on the altar of cancel culture.
Now an effort to save the indigenous hero's legacy as well as larger Native history from a woke agenda is beginning to spread nationwide.
White Calf was the face of the NFL’s Washington Redskins for 48 years. Before receiving that honor, he was one of the most famous Native Americans of the 20th century.
But then his name, image, achievements — his very existence, really — were erased by the politically connected National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), headquartered in Washington, D.C.
White Calf was erased from the NFL, too. The Redskins, under mounting pressure fueled in large part by the NCAI, dumped its White Calf portrait logo in 2020 and adopted the name Commanders in 2021.
"The Redskins were the only minority representation in the entire NFL and it was a real person, not a mascot," historian Andre Billeaudeaux of San Diego, California, the author of "How the Redskins Got Their Name," told Fox News Digital in an interview.
The NCAI counts among its benefactors the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundations. American taxpayers also fund the group.
It receives support from seven federal bureaucracies, including the Department of Defense, according to its own website, as Fox News Digital previously reported.
Beyond the removal of Native logos and representations in pro sports, the NCAI "has tracked the retirement of more than 200 unsanctioned Native ‘themed’ mascots since 2019, and has supported legislation banning the use of these mascots in multiple states," the group said in a statement last year to Fox News Digital.
Yet "these decisions never have popular support," said Eunice Davidson, a Dakota Sioux and president of the Native American Guardians Association (NAGA), to Fox News Digital last week.
Many of those images were founded up to a century ago to celebrate local Native heritage — and not all were mascots.
.....
The newer woke NCAI elevated its assault on Native American images in 2013, when it published a report dramatically called "Ending the Legacy of Racism in Sports & The Era of Harmful ‘Indian’ Sports Mascots."
The 29-page dissertation included a caustic 3,560-word history of the Redskins and its "legacy of racism."
Yet the NCAI Redskins' narrative is missing one notable name. It fails to mention Chief Two Guns White Calf — the face of the Redskins franchise for 48 years.
