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Oneida tribe calls for Washington Redskins name change | Al Jazeera America

11.10.13

Oneida tribe calls for Washington Redskins name change | Al Jazeera America: The Oneida tribe in New York State is spearheading a campaign to get the NFL franchise to rebrand itself, just as league owners hold their fall meeting in the U.S. capital. The tribe held a symposium on the issue Monday in Washington to coincide with the NFL owners' meetings taking place across town.

"It's a dictionary-defined offensive term," Ray Halbritter, a prominent leader of the Oneida Indian Nation, told Agence France-Presse. "Washington's team name is a painful epitaph that was used against my people, Indian people, when we were held at gunpoint and thrown off our lands."

Also at the symposium, U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., said the league and team are "promoting a racial slur," adding that "this issue is not going away."


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