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LeDaro: Racism: Washington Redskins Football Team
Natives find the term Redskins highly offense. It has the historic background as follows: “Back not so long ago, when there was a bounty on the heads of the Indian people…the trappers would bring in Indian scalps along with the other skins that they had managed to trap or shoot.
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Approaching Native Issues and the Language of Decolonization
For the last several years, Native American activists in Canada have been using the language of “decolonize” or “decolonialism” as a part of their rhetoric in advocating for change. I do not believe that this is a particularly useful tactic for a lot of reasons, and one which in the
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