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SA recognizes November as Veterans and Military Appreciation Month

FILE PHOTO Senator Andrew Rasmussen will now recognize November 2020 as military appreciation month.

J. MICHAEL BERTSCH Managing Editor (He/Him) The Students’ Association will now recognize Nove m b e r 2 0 2 0 a s Veterans and Military Appreciation Month after the unanimous passage of

a resolution. During the Nov. 2 Students’ Association meeting, the Senate voted to pass Resolution 20-15-R, entitled “(South Dakota State University) Students’ Association Recognition of November as Veterans and Military

Appreciation Month.” The resolution was inspired by the passage of Resolution 20-09-R, which recognized October as “LGBTQ+ History Month.” During the discussion of 20-09-R, members of the Senate expressed their interest in drafting resolutions to honor other groups on campus as well. S e n a t o r -A t - L a r g e Andrew Rasmussen and Cole Hennen, president of the SDSU Armed Forces Association, collaborated on the drafting and passage of Resolution 20-15-R. “This [military members and veterans] is a group we all know are on campus,” Rasmussen said. “We all see the military

hall or see them doing exercises, but I think a lot of people don’t recognize what they do or what events they have. We also have many non-traditional students who are veterans, so I think this group is important to recognize.” The resolution also mentions events being hosted by AFA, the Veterans Affairs Office and Multicultural Aﬀairs Oﬃce during November. These include Warrior Week, Nov. 9-13, and a talk by David Flute, secretary of the South Dakota Department of Tribal Relations and Purple Heart recipient. “I think it’s really awesome that we have two groups that you might

not associate together working together and highlighting certain aspects that students wouldn’t normally think about,” Rasmussen said. The Senate passed the resolution unanimously. “We had a lot of support, which I really think is exciting for Students’ Association,” Rasmussen said. “We were really able to unify behind that and it wasn’t a contentious item.” After the celebration of LGBTQ History Month and the adoption of Veterans and Military Appreciation Month, Rasmussen hopes the Senate can do more to celebrate other underrepresented groups at SDSU. “I’m definitely inter-

ested in writing more resolutions looking at those underrepresented groups that we have on campus,” Rasmussen said. “Obviously I’m not the expert, so it’s nice having someone else take the lead on it, but I’m happy to help them through the process and help carry some of those resolutions.”

Any students interested in sponsoring similar resolutions can email Senator Andrew Rasmussen: andrew.rasmussen751@ jacks.sdstate.edu

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Tribal communities tackle resource shortage and isolation at home

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GRACIE TERRALL News Editor (She/Her) South Dakota has one of the highest percentages of Indigenous people in America, and with nine tribal communities operating under different laws from the state government, these communities faced unique challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Dillon Nelson is a ﬁrst-year graduate student at South Dakota State University and a part of the Oglala Sioux Nation. He completed his undergraduate degree from the Oglala Community College on the Pine Ridge Reservation in January. “There is definitely added stress from everything happening on the reservations and then coming to school here,”

Nelson said. “I have to worry about my family aﬀected by COVID-19 and me being all the way over here and not being able to help them.” According to Erica Moore, director of the American Indian Student Center, people in tribal communities already feel the eﬀects of isolation and food insecurity, but when a national crisis like a global pandemic or recession occurs, those factors are compounded. “Our students are already experiencing food insecurity, lack of resources and having their communities so far from populated cities surrounding the tribal communities, so anytime we are experiencing something nationally, they’re one of the groups that are going to experience some of the more harsh

impacts, because they are more vulnerable,” Moore said. Because tribal communities are independent sovereign nations, they operate under different laws than the state government. This allowed them to put in place different regulations regarding the pandemic. Pine Ridge, along with the Cheyenne River tribe, implemented checkpoints along their borders to restrict outside traffic from the tribal community, which was supposed to prevent widespread exposure. Some communities even had curfew hours in the evening to help encourage people to stay home. “They were trying to be very proactive in their approach to it,” Morgan Catlett-Ausborn, American Indian

Academic Success adviser said in regards to the checkpoints. “It’s no fun to be 20 years old and be on lockdown all summer. But that literally meant they had to be at their house by eight at night. People may not understand why they’re doing what they’re doing, but there’s deﬁnitely a reason why they’re doing it.” Some of the struggles students faced were inaccessibility to technology like computers and living in remote areas with no access to the internet. Nelson, who still has family residing in Pine Ridge, contributes this to a lack of resources. “Getting resources, it seems like, is a little bit of a logistical nightmare because there’s only one grocery store in the Pine Ridge area,” Nelson said. “If there is a lockdown,

people can’t go out to Walmart.” With most tribal members having access to only one grocery store, that makes social distancing and minimal contact with others hard. Catlett-Ausborn said that a few students chose to stay in the dorms once the university went online last semester due to these limited resources. “A lot of our students choose not to go home,” she said. “Their reservations are either on lockdown or they are worried about taking COVID-19 home to their families just because they know the situation is more dire in areas where the medical resources are not as strong.” The AISC has been of help to students who chose to return home, though. They provided

students who did not have computers, or only a single computer per household, with laptops through their lending library program. The university distributed wireless adapters or routers to students who did not have access to the internet. Apart from support due to the pandemic, the AISC helps their Indigenous students in other ways to ensure their academic success at SDSU. “The center as a whole is a support service,” Moore said. “They have free printing services, free tutoring services and free mentoring services … We also have specific funds set aside for research that’s going to beneﬁt our American Indian students here on campus and in the tribal communities.”

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Indigenous lands used for land-grant universities ANTHONY HAWKINS Reporter (He/Him)

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South Dakota’s history has deep roots intertwined with the Indigenous peoples in the region. South Dakota State University is no diﬀerent, having been built on Indigeneous lands. To understand how the school came to be, one has to ﬁrst look at the history of Brookings itself. In 1857, pioneer Wilmot Brookings arrived in Sioux Falls and ventured into Yankton. He was elected by the legislative body as the provisional governor of the Dakota Territory, an area that spanned from western Minnesota to the east of the Missouri River. This claim as provisional governor was unrecognized by the U.S. government until 1861 when Dakota Territory became federally recognized. Brookings then served as a representative of Yankton County in 1861. It was around this same time that the Morrill Act was passed in 1862, which

allowed college campuses to be built using proceeds and interest earned off land sales. This provision would help fund the creation of the Dakota School of Agriculture in the city of Brookings in 1881. Land disputes were arising to the west of the Missouri River between the Sioux and the settlers. This prompted the signing of the Fort Laramie Treaty in 1868, which recognized the Black Hills as belonging to the Great Sioux Reservation and preserved the freedom of the tribes to operate as “undisturbed” by settlers. The western part of South Dakota was claimed in 1887 by the Dawes Act, which assigned 160,000 acres of land to that area of the state. This undermined the previous treaty of Fort Laramie. In 1873, a proposal was made for three new towns east of the Missouri River to accommodate a major railroad into South Dakota, which attracted more settlers and prospective business owners.

These three towns were Brookings, Volga and Arlington. The ﬁrst of the three would become the new site for the construction of the college campus we know today. In 1881, the Dakota School of Agriculture was established in Brookings, which served as a predecessor for SDSU, and beneﬁtted from the landgrant established by Pres. Lincoln. The school would go on to be named South Dakota State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in 1904, and would later be renamed South Dakota State University in 1964. Land-grant status was given to the college in 1889. The campus has origins on land previously designated to the Yankton Sioux through a treaty between the tribe and the U.S government, a treaty that was undermined in the late 1880s.

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HOBO DAY CRIME COMPARISON 2019-2020

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Hidden history of missing and murdered Indigenous women JORDAN RUSCHE Lifestyles Editor (She/Her) In South Dakota, the concept of missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) is not new to most Indigenous peoples throughout the state. In non-Indigenous circles though, many are still unaware of just how prevalent a problem this is. “ W hy we k n ow about this is because of Indigenous people raising awareness, because of families talking to other families who are going through a similar thing,” Sharity Bassett, assistant professor of American Indian studies, said. “I’m saddened to say that every day on my Facebook newsfeed there is at least one family putting out a picture of somebody [who

has gone missing].” According to a report issued by the Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI) in 2019, 506 cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls were collected and identified across 71 cities in 29 states. One hundred-twenty-eight of those cases involved an Indigenous woman going missing and 280 were cases of Indigenous women being murdered. Ninety-eight cases were of an unknown status. Additionally, 13 of those 506 cases occurred in South Dakota. The median age of women among these cases was 29 years old. The youngest case involved an infant less than 1 year old, and the oldest case involved an 83-year-old woman. Twenty-seven

percent of the cases involved someone 18 years old or younger. The information was gathered from a variety of sources, including police reports, state and national databases, media coverage, social media and accounts from community and family members. Though data was requested by UIHI from

as far back as 1900, 80% of the data collected had occurred since 2000. “It’s scary for me just being Indigenous, knowing that’s something that can happen and knowing a lot of the crimes aren’t taken seriously,” Paige Cain, a junior studying history education and American Indian studies, said. Cain

“It’s scary for me just being Indigenous, knowing that’s something that can happen and knowing a lot of the crimes aren’t taken seriously,”

PAIGE CAIN History Education and American Indian Studies Major

has researched MMIW over the last three years. She is also a tribal descendant of the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe. According to her research findings, I n d i g e n o u s wo m e n face sexual assault rates nearly 10 times that of the national average. Bassett added that in most demographics, 80% of sexual violence is committed by someone of the same race or ethnic group as the victim; with Indigenous women, the majority of these attacks are committed by a non-Indigenous perpetrator. These official numbers are only a fraction of the number of cases that occur. Cain explained that very few cases of MMIW end up in some sort of database. In 2016, 5,712 cases such as these

were reported. Only 116 of those cases ended up in a national database. It is also challenging to get state and tribal governments to share information about MMIW, which makes getting an accurate count of total cases diﬃcult. South Dakota also has no database for cases regarding MMIW. “There are some things with state versus tribal law that make it near impossible to prosecute people who are not Indigenous but committed a crime on Indigenous lands,” Megan White Face, program coordinator for the SDSU Wokini Initiative said. “There are all these crazy laws that exist to protect us, but [also] to protect non-Indigenous people from us.” Indigenous scholars are working to address

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November 4, 2020 the alarming frequency of indigenous victims compared to other demographics. Au d r a S i m p s o n , Kahnawake Mohawk cultural anthropologist, believes it comes from the cultural and spiritual ties Indigenous people have to the land. Colonists needed to remove them so they could take that land for themselves. Indigenous women in particular were susceptible to this. “Historically, our communities were matriarchal. Women weren’t necessarily leaders but had very high positions in the community …,” White Face said. “So, removing the women deﬁnitely does damage to the community.” Sarah Deer, University Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, speaks of how colonization can be directly linked to why Indigenous women are raped and murdered in current culture. She has demonstrated through her research that before colonization, rape was not a concept among most Indigenous tribes in North America. She also explains that while MMIW have been labeled an “epidemic,” in our culture, the rape of Indigenous women has stretched back several centuries, historically being used as a tool to aid in the genocide of Indigenous peoples. In recent history, White Face explains that the negative stereotypes people can have of Native communities, especially those in tribal communities, also inﬂuences why many cases aren’t taken seriously.

“In my experience with women and people I’ve known in the past that have faced any kind of tragedy, whether it’s a death or abuse, most people’s first reaction is ‘well, it’s because they’re an alcoholic or they abuse drugs or they’re homeless,’” she said. “I know that’s sometimes the case, but that doesn’t mean they’re not of value.”

“We’re often overlooked because of the way we live, and people don’t see us in a scholarly way, don’t see us as educated, intelligent, worldly people,” MEGAN WHITE FACE Program Coordinator for SDSU’s Wokini Initiative SDSU has done work to address this problem through the American Indian Student Center. The AISC recently sponsored the “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Walk for Justice,” which Bassett said had a turnout of nearly 100 people. The event hosted speakers including Cain, who discussed the historical contexts of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and dancers performing a jingle dress dance, an important cultural tradition meant to be a dance for healing. M o r g a n C a t l e t tAusborn, the American Indian Student Academic and Student Success

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adviser, said that they hope to continue hosting events like the walk in the future to continue spreading awareness. “We really want to bring more focus to that specific subject because it is so important and so many people are affected by it, and use that as a jumping-off point to discuss even broader topics of the health and wellness of women,” she said. The AISC plans to host a variety of talks in the future that, while not specifically about MMIW, discuss factors that contribute to the problem. White Face added that a speaker, American Indian health psychologist and musician Darryl Tonemah, will speak about the trauma in Native communities and how this has affected Indigenous peoples at a biological level Nov. 16 via Zoom. Overall, those close to this issue want non-Indigenous people to know that these are serious issues that require open-mindedness and understanding. “We’re often overlooked because of the way we live, and people don’t see us in a scholarly way, don’t see us as educated, intelligent, worldly people,” White Face said. “People think, especially perpetrators, it’s easy to come to our reservations and do harm to our community and no one will care, when in fact it’s the exact opposite.”

SUBMITTED The American Indian Student Center sponsored the “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Walk for Justice” Oct. 10 with nearly 100 participants that showed their support.

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CAFES marketing director brings smiles to program KIRA GIFFORD Reporter (She/ Her) At the end of a long corridor in Berg Agricultural Hall sits an office and a desk. Inside are shelves overrun with binders labeled “Promotional Material,” “Events,” “Academic Programs and Departments” and dozens of pamphlets promoting programs like SDSU Extension and the university’s research facilities and diagnostic labs. A whiteboard on the wall keeps track of a whole list of things to get done, and it’s accompanied by sticky notes and pads of to-do lists sitting on the desk – along with a copy of “The Associated Press Style Book.” Sitting behind the desk keeping track of it all is Lora Berg, the director of marketing and communications for the College of Agriculture, Food & Environmental Sciences (CAFES). Students popping in are likely to get a smile from Berg, a question about how their day is going and, if they are really lucky, an invitation to swing by the SDSU Dairy Bar to grab some ice cream. Berg has been in her position since January 2015, and almost six years later she still ﬁnds herself fulfilled and excited to

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come to work every day. “Not much I don’t like about my current position. There isn’t much to complain about . . . and it’s a Monday, isn’t that crazy!” Berg said. Berg graduated from SDSU in 1988 with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural journalism, then returned for a master’s degree in journalism and mass communication in 1990. Her first job out of college was writing newsletters for the National Livestock and Meat Board in Chicago. This company used checkoff dollars for beef, pork, lamb and veal to conduct research and then marketed that information to different areas of the industry through newsletters and a magazine. After working for the National Livestock and Meat Board, Berg was hired as the communications director for the Nebraska Beef Industry Development Board, where she would write press releases and newsletters and help direct media tours. An opportunity to work with “National Hog Farmer” magazine came next, and she eventually took the position of managing editor and created the ﬁrst electronic newsletter for the company. When she was urged

to apply for her current position on campus 25 years after graduating with her master’s degree, she was thrilled. “It sounded like a fun time to jump in and start developing communication and marketing content for the college,” Berg said in explaining what motivated her to take the job. She was a one-woman department when she started. The CAFES marketing and communication efforts had been under the supervision of the University Marketing and Communications office, but faculty and staﬀ members advocated for CAFES to build its marketing and communication team, and that’s when Berg got hired. Berg’s day-to-day work varies, but some projects stay the same, like overseeing the marketing and communication for the South Dakota Agriculture Experiment Station and SDSU Extension, creating promotional content, social media content, press releases and student recruitment content for all of the academic programs in CAFES, managing the publication of “Growing South Dakota,” organizing student photoshoots and helping the dean with press releases and communication sent out from that oﬃce.

The Collegian is the independent student newspaper at South Dakota State University in Brookings, S.D. The Collegian is published by and for South Dakota State University students under the First Amendment guarantees of free speech and a free press. Opinions expressed on these pages are not necessarily those of the student body, faculty, staﬀ or administration. The Collegian is published weekly on Wednesday during the academic year of SDSU.

Collegian photo by HOLLIE LEGGETT (She/Her) Lora Berg, director of marketing and communications for CAFES, also oversees a number of student clubs on campus.

After working for a couple of years on her own, Berg got help, hiring Sydney Meyer in 2018 and Andrea Schubloom in 2019. Meyer, the marketing and communication coor-

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dinator, enjoys working with Berg because Berg brings energy to whatever project she does. “She is a strategic thinker and is able to come up with out-of-the-box ideas for campaigns and

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EDITORIAL Issue: Schools should teach all American history, not just white history With November marking Native American Heritage Month across the country, it’s important to look back on how little the history of our Indigenous peoples is represented in America today. Our knowledge of Indigenous history comes first in elementary school. Already, the history of colonial interactions with Indigenous tribes is reduced to lessons of pilgrims and Thanksgiving without explaining the reality of what this led to. More detail is given in middle school and high school, but even then, students are unaware of history that doesn’t revolve around “Manifest Destiny” and Lewis and Clark. In college, it’s rare to hear about the true history of Indigenous peoples outside of American Indian Studies courses.

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Most of what we hear today comes from social media and the voices of Indigenous students and faculty who do not want history to be erased any longer. As a state with deep ties to Indigenous history, South Dakota has a duty to address its own shortcomings. This state’s history is filled with acts committed at the expense of Indigenous peoples. Many today don’t know how Mount Rushmore, a staple of American culture to many, was constructed on sacred land to the Indigenous tribes of the region, breaking the Fort Laramie Treaty signed in 1868 that was meant to set aside the Black Hills for these tribes. The boarding schools created by the government during the 19th century continued these acts. South Dakota itself had 43 boarding schools by 1900, meant

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to “civilize” Indigenous children by forcing them to learn English and adopt white culture. Most of these schools did not close until the late 1930s, and schools in other parts of America operated for much longer, finally closing as late as 1973. In recent history, some efforts have been made, both in South Dakota and across the U.S., to rectify these problems. South Dakota State University is one of many universities built on historically Indigenous land. To help give back to Indigenous communities, SDSU has established the Wokini Scholarship for Indigenous students and the Wokini Initiative, a program that helps promote academic success among these students. Another change is the renaming of

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Columbus Day. South Dakota was the first state to officially celebrate Native Americans’ Day on the second Monday in October annually, doing so in 1990. Still, it will take more than donations and renaming holidays to address centuries of mistreatment and oppression. We shouldn’t only be able to learn about Indigenous history in specific courses or outside research. The truth of America’s history with Indigenous peoples must be shared more openly, so we can learn and do more. The Collegian Editorial Board meets weekly and agrees on the issue of the editorial. The editorial represents the opinion of The Collegian.

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How to ﬁnancially plan around an internship

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LORNA SABOEWOUNDED HEAD Guest Columnist (She/Her) To get a good internship, you are probably being encouraged to start looking for opportunities now, even though the internship may not start for six months. Your major professors

may recommend you complete an internship to round out your academic experience, or an internship may be required for your major. Not only do you need to get your resume ready and consider the type of experience you want, but you also need to think about your financial situation.

Paid or Unpaid Internship Depending on your career field, the best internships may be unpaid or the pay is minimal. When you are searching for and reviewing internship opportunities, pay attention to the ﬁnances. The skills you develop from the experience are important, but if you can’t

aﬀord to pay for a place to live, buy food or drive to the worksite, the experience won’t matter. If you know that you will likely get an unpaid internship, consider searching in communities where you know that you will be able to live either rent-free or at a very low cost, or start planning now to save money for

the experience. Get a job and save your earnings, work extra hours, save unexpected income (tax refund, gift money) or look for ways to reduce your expenses to save more now. Lifestyle Changes Working in a professional setting may result in a change in your lifestyle. You may need to

dress differently (more professionally), eat lunch at work, have less downtime or drive further to work. These changes may translate into spending money on items you haven’t had to think about, or you may have fewer opportunities to spend. Read full story online at sdsucollegian.com

Plastic bags not recyclable in campus bins JENNIFER MCLAUGHLIN Guest Columnist (She/Her) Last summer, plastic bags were taken off the recyclable list for Brookings and South Dakota State University and remain unrecyclable in single stream recycling today. This includes plastic bags alone and plastic bags used to collect recyclables before tossing them in the dumpster. But why? Plastics come in all different types and qualities. Some plastics are more recyclable than others and

go through the recycling process more easily. For example, certain plastics are so thin that they burn during the melting process. That does not work well if you want to make new products. Another key reason for what can and cannot be recycled is the market. Even if there is an eﬀective means to recycle material, if there is no business that wants to use the material, it is not worth the cost and energy to send it through the recycling process. Glass is a great example of this.

Glass is incredibly recyclable and can be recycled multiple times without the quality being downgraded; however, it is currently cheaper to purchase virgin materials than it is to use recycled glass to make new products. Plastic bags fall in both categories mentioned above. For one, they are incredibly diﬃcult to send through the recycling process. In fact, they have to be pulled off manually, otherwise they get caught in the machines so badly

the machines have to be shut down. There is also no market for plastic bags in the single stream recycling system (when all types of recyclables are collected together). Why isn’t there a market? One reason is quantity. There are so many discarded plastic bags the specialty markets that do tackle plastic bag recycling have far more bags ﬂowing through the market than they require to satisfy their needs. What should I do as an avid recycler, you ask? The best thing you can

do is avoid getting plastic bags in the ﬁrst place. Reusable bags are a great replacement for plastic bags when you go out shopping. But, even if you forget your reusable bags or COVID-19 restrictions limit your ability to use them, you can get creative in carrying your items. If it is just a few items, carry them out without a bag. If you have more items than you can carry in your arms, consider placing them back into the shopping cart without a bag, then placing them

in your vehicle loose or in your reusable bags you’ve left in your car. Not sure how to collect your recyclables without a bag? Place items directly into your recycling bin, then dump that bin’s contents directly into the recycling dumpster. When the bin gets dirty, you can simply wipe it down with a household cleaner. Read full story online at sdsucollegian.com

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Sports Opinion

Native references: Yea or nay?

Change oﬀensive names and mascots, but let fans have their fun SKYLER JACKSON Sports Reporter (He/Him) Native American nicknames and symbols have always been a part of United States sports teams at the professional, collegiate and high school levels. But teams are now changing their identity in response to the increasing protest. My opinion on Native American references in sports is mixed. Fans wanting to use certain celebrations to cheer on their team is not oﬀensive to me. It’s just fans having fun at the game. But, if racial names and logos are used in sports, get rid of them. I don’t care if fans have the best intentions not to be racist; the brands are still racist. The most recent example of a racial name change was earlier this year when the Washington NFL franchise decided to part ways with the Redskins mascot after 87 years. This was part of the wave of racial name changes in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. I always used to think, “What’s the big deal? Who cares what a sports team’s nickname is?” But after hearing the news of Washington’s name change, I came to understand why it happened.

Considering the world we live in today, I’m surprised Washington didn’t change their name sooner. The team saw plenty of criticism over the years because the term “Redskin” was seen as oﬀensive and insulting to Native Americans. The term entered broader use in the English language early in the 19th century as a racial slur used to identify Native Americans. So, I fully understand why Washington decided to rebrand its football team. Another recent racial change in sports was the beginning of last year when the Cleveland Indians removed their Chief Wahoo logo from uniforms. Pe o p l e p e rce ive d the logo as racist, and I agree. The symbol is a racist caricature of Native Americans. I’m glad to see the Indians retire the emblem. However, I don’t have a problem with the team’s name. For the same reasons as the Washington name change, I get why the Indians parted ways with their logo. But I can’t figure out how a simple fan celebration, such as the famous tomahawk chop, is racist or oﬀensive. The tomahawk chop was started by Florida State Seminoles fans in

the late 1980s and later adopted by fans of the Kansas City Chiefs and Atlanta Braves in the early 1990s. Some have always viewed the chop as racist and a misrepresentation of Native Americans. My stance on it: let the fans have some fun. Fans are not intentionally trying to be racist. They don’t insult or misrepresent anyone, and they are not making fun of Native American culture. They are fans rooting for their favorite team. Today, people are just looking for reasons to be oﬀended, and I don’t think the way fans celebrate at a sporting event is one of those reasons. Fans doing the tomahawk chop at a sporting event doesn’t mean anything, so I don’t see the harm in people moving their forearms up and down. It’s honestly not that big of a deal. I’ll admit that Washington’s former mascot and the Cleveland Indians logo are better left out, but we need to stop looking for excuses to be mad at each other and just let people have their fun.

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