Here's another poll done by a native.
Quote:
The first question on the survey tells the basic story:
The Redskins team name is a racial or racist word and symbol
.
American Indians were
67 % in agreement
, 12 % wer
e neutral and
20 % disagreed
with the statement.
O
ther ethnic groups
are spread across
the
three major categories of seeing the term Redskins as racist,
as neutral,
or
disagreeing i
n
seeing Redskins as racially offensive.
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http://cips.csusb.edu/docs/PressRelease.pdf
Here's another quote from my previous link.
Quote:
“A lot of Native Americans will say they are not offended by it,” Fenelon said. “It’s not a huge racial problem, but then you read the comments, you’ll often find that they have re-appropriated the term like the so called N-word. They don’t mean that the term is not offensive because they’ve taken it back.”
Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwor...143?page=0%2C2
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