There are less than five million ACTUAL “Indians” left in America. I’m gambling these Oneida guys are just white people who pretend they’re “Indians” for attention.
Via Washington Post:
NFL officials will meet with the Native American group that is campaigning against the name of the Washington Redskins and hosted a symposium Monday on the issue a mile away from where league owners began gathering for a fall meeting.
“They know we’re not going away,” said Ray Halbritter, a representative for the Oneida Indian Nation. He called the meeting with the National Football League “a move in the right direction.”
The symposium comes three days after President Obamatook a stance in the long-standing debate, saying that if he were the team’s owner, he would think about changing the name.
The Oneida Nation launched the “Change the Mascot” campaign a few months ago, drawing inspiration from a high school in its back yard that dropped the “Redskins” moniker. Since then, the New York tribe has emerged as one of the strongest forces behind the growing push to scrap the Washington team’s 80-year-old name, scheduling radio ads to run in every city the Redskins visit this season.
Its conference, held at the Ritz-Carlton in Georgetown, featured a panel of speakers that included the head of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, a psychologist who spoke about the public health consequences of the word, student activists and politicians — Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton(D-D.C.).