Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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January 31, 1994
[incomplete & unpublished]
The
Minneapolis Star Tribune has turned over a new
page, and edited their stylebook. In
their sports section, they’ve gone from bashing stereotypical Indians,
to being
politically correct and promoting good-guy Indians.
They are doing some ethnic cleansing, deleting some potentially
offensive terms from their sportswriting, like “Redskins.”
It’s no longer sporting to make fun of
Indians, at least as ... [uncompleted] ...
But, this doesn’t
mean that in the other sections of the paper, they aren’t still using
Indians a
political football. Now, Clyde
Bellecourt and his crew of Wanna-Be’s don’t have to demonstrate against
the
Washington Redskins, and the Washington team doesn’t have to change
their name,
either. They can keep on doing the
Tomahawk Chop, too, because the sports apologized.
If they’re worried about ethnic slurs and racist mascots, why
don’t they look at their own home team?
If they’re worried about calling their “Redskins,” why don’t
they call
the Vikings “White-skins.” Maybe
because most of the Vikings are African-American players with black
skins.
Knight-Ridder
News Service ran a story on the wires from San
Jose, printed in Sunday’s St. Paul Pioneer Press. The
Asian Indians and the American Indians are having a conflict
about who’s the real Indian. Probably
it’s the Indian fakirs from India and the Indian fakers from America. They’re worried about who is the real Indian.
There
is a problem here.
How do you get government officials to accept change, in
renaming these
Indians, with all of these Indian treaties.
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