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FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2018, photo, Kansas City Chiefs fans chant and do the chop during the second half of the team s NFL football game against the Los Angeles Chargers in Kansas City, Mo. The Kansas City Chiefs have since barred headdresses and war paint amid the nationwide push for racial justice, but its effort to make its popular “war chant” more palatable is getting a fresh round of scrutiny from Native American groups as the team prepares to make its second straight Super Bowl appearance. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File) Photo: Associated Press
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press
Friday, February 5th 2021, 12:54 pm
By: CBS News
A Native American rights group is planning a protest on Sunday urging the Kansas City Chiefs to retire the team s name and stop fans from using an in-game tomahawk chop ahead of Super Bowl LV in Tampa.
Alicia Norris, co-founder of the Florida Indigenous Rights and Environmental Equality (FIREE), is one of the people leading the demonstration set to take place near Raymond James Stadium, where the Chiefs will play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the championship. Norris told CBS News that the use of the name and chop are dishonorable and disrespectful.
By Christopher Brito Symbolic Justice
A Native American rights group is planning a protest on Sunday urging the Kansas City Chiefs to retire the team s name and stop fans from using an in-game tomahawk chop ahead of Super Bowl LV in Tampa.
Alicia Norris, co-founder of the Florida Indigenous Rights and Environmental Equality (FIREE), is one of the people leading the demonstration set to take place near Raymond James Stadium, where the Chiefs will play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the championship. Norris told CBS News that the use of the name and chop are dishonorable and disrespectful. The Indigenous people of this land have already had a mass genocide approach with regard to their culture and way of living, she said. And when you further dehumanize them and objectify them, it just kind of falls in line with that extinction of who they are.
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A pedestrian walks past a downtown Kansas City mural painted in support of the Kansas City Chiefs ahead of Super Bowl LV. Pressure is mounting for the team to abandon a popular tradition in which fans break into a “war chant” while making a chopping hand motion.
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Pressure is mounting for the Super Bowl-bound Kansas City Chiefs to abandon a popular tradition in which fans break into a “war chant” while making a chopping hand motion designed to mimic the Native American tomahawk.
Local groups have long argued that the team’s chop tradition and even its name itself are derogatory to American Indians, yet the national attention focused for years on the Washington football team’s name, and the cartoonish Chief Wahoo logo, long the emblem for the Cleveland Indians baseball team. But in the past year, those teams have decided to ditch their Native American-themed monikers, and the defending champion Chiefs are generating more attention due to a second consecutive appeara