The Navajo Code Talkers beg to differ.

Via Politico:

The leader of the Oneida Indian Nation said Friday the Washington Redskins name is a “dictionary-defined slur” that must be changed.

“It’s a dictionary-defined slur. I think even in [Los Angeles Clippers owner] Donald Sterling’s comments — I don’t know if he used an actually dictionary-defined slur, but he still conveyed a message,” Ray Halbritter, nation representative, said on MSNBC’s “Jansing & Co.”

Halbritter, who has been leading the effort to get rid of the name, praised the National Basketball Association for handling Sterling’s racist remarks “in the correct way.”

“Here, the NFl has the responsibility to do the same thing,” he said.

The debate over the team’s use of “redskin”—which Merriam-Webster online dictionary describes as “usually offensive” — reached new heights in D.C. after 50 senators signed a letter Thursday urging NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Redskins owner Dan Snyder to change the team’s name.