My TV Segment & Open Letter to Washington Redskins Owner Dan Snyder

Dear Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins…

In case you missed my segment on Alicia Menendez Tonight (which airs weeknights @7pm ET on the new Fusion network) you can watch it here…or tune in tonight @7:30pm ET. If you don’t have Fusion, you can watch the video HERE.

We’re more than half-way through November and for Native Americans like me, that means we’ve made it through Halloween–a holiday that makes Indigenous people groan at Pocahotties and Indian braves costumes. Once we get past the construction paper headdresses that Thanksgiving brings, there’s still just one more issue to tackle on the calendar: Washington’s NFL team, the Redskins.

Are you listening, Dan Snyder? Your Washington NFL team needs a name change.

Countless organizations and news outlets have come out in support of that change and have agreed to stop using your team’s name at all:

• President Obama
• Mayor of Washington DC, Vincent Gray
• The Oneida Indian Nation
• Sports Illustrated’s site Monday Morning Quarter Back
• Slate
• Washington City Paper
• The Kansas City Star
• MotherJones
• New Republic
• Native American Journalists Association
• American Indian Movement
• Washington, D.C. City Council
• Rep. Dan Maffei, D-N.Y.
• Kat Williams

…just to name a few!

But if TMZ’s got it right, Dan – never going to change the name – Snyder, you may be renaming your team the Washington Bravehearts, you’ve missed the point.

[…more at Fusion.net]

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Happy Native American Heritage Month!

-NativeJournalist