The Kansas City Chiefs are coming to the Super Bowl and so are Native activists who want the team to change its name and end Indigenous stereotypes.
When the Kansas City Chiefs take the field against the Philadelphia Eagles on Super Bowl Sunday, they will sportwith a distinctive logo: an arrowhead with the initials KC emblazoned on the surface.
But some Indigenous people told The Arizona Republic that fans still use the same chant, appropriated from old Hollywood Western movies, and continue to enter Arrowhead Stadium with inappropriate Native-themed headdresses and war paint. The activists want the team to retire the name and ban the headdresses, chants and other cultural appropriation.
When the team moved to Kansas City in 1963, the owners changed the name to the Chiefs, a fan favorite in a name-the-team contest. Thesaid the new identity paid homage to Mayor H. Roe Bartle, who had invited the team to relocate from Dallas.
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