Who is chief wahoo

We continue to research our fan base to better understand their perception and stance on the logo, but at present time have no plans of making a change. The team made news Saturday when they "officially" demoted the logo to secondary use, fully endorsing the block C as the main logo.

Meanwhile, the Indians — in , when we still have people shouting " Get off the stage, squaw! The armpit. But we are not willing to stop profiting from the way we have treated you. The thing about treating a people like sideshow and sidebar is that they are never given center stage, or the front page, to air their truth. Allowing the logo to supposedly fade to the background while simultaneously profiting from its gross caricature is merely a more benevolent and capitalistic equivalent to reservations.

The people so flippantly dismissed by the phrase "and those who are opposed" encapsulate decades of protestors and activists, Native American and not. There exists this false narrative that the Chief Wahoo controversy was borne from the millennial tendency to police off-color language and logos. This narrative is ignorant. You can almost understand the ignorance. Usually I try to take the positive out of it. Joba Chamberlain, whose father was born on a Winnebago reservation, had even less to say when asked by Yahoo Sports : "I plead the Fifth," he said.

Kyle Lohse pitcher and Nomlaki tribe member politely declined to comment for this story. This, of course, ignores the legion of Latino players who have indigenous lineage and hail from countries where shades of brown and the European-or-native distinction created caste-system societies. And it ignores present-day Native Americans, and their children, who we know now are still impacted by stereotypical depictions of their culture, a la Chief Wahoo.

It is easy to see a cartoon and render it meaningless. American history is littered with stereotypical images presented in kid-friendly formats — seemingly benign tools of oppression.

But stereotypes have a negative impact on self-worth, and Chief Wahoo is no exception. As outlined in a paper from Virginia Commonwealth University , racial stereotypes impacted African-Americans from both directions.

Their self-worth was diminished, their reputation in society maliciously shaped, so ingrained it becomes "fact. Green noted that "acts of racial violence were justified and encouraged through the emphasis on this stereotype of the Savage African-American. According to the U.

Department of Justice and a report commissioned by the Oneida Nation , no minority faces higher rates of violent victimization. Native children are more likely to confront threats and violence than other kids.

And Native American women face the highest sexual assault rate among ethnic groups; 70 percent of those assaults come from non-Native American assailants. When they moved, the Wahoo logo was not prominently displayed outside as it had been in the past. Arizona contains one of the largest populations of Native Americans in the country.

When asked, team president Paul Dolan told sportswriter Paul Hoynes that there was "some sensitivity" involved in using the logo outside of the complex.

February -- cleveland. It implies that their affection for Wahoo was somehow impure. It taints their nostalgia. It creates a break from the past. For many, getting rid of Wahoo means giving into excessive political correctness. April - Wahoo becomes a secondary logo. The Wahoo icon remained on the sleeve of the jerseys. October - Activist tries to stop use of Wahoo in Ontario.

Cardinal, who designed the National Museum of the American Indian, claimed that the name and logo were discriminatory. What is going on? Cancel culture at work! Oh no! While the team's decision comes after Washington Football Team's July decision to stop using the name Redskins, it has stirred a massive debate among angry and content fans on social media.

Gonna miss you Chief Wahoo! Best smile in baseball! For this they have to be renamed The Cleveland Steamers! Indians chief wahoo will live on my leg and man cave forever no matter how PC your are and if your a white liberal you don't get to say what is racist to other cultures, white libs have ruined this country.

The image of the Blackhawks team needs to be retired. The team is named after an actual person and he surely did not look like their logo. The Blackhawks are also on the list of what should change. The image of Chief Wahoo is offensive period, and it should go in the history of Cleveland sports books.

No one is denying tradition or history, they are merely recognizing reality. What is that.. Your post is insulting to so many! Native Americans were warriors in North America. What your father did makes no difference. Change the name…the t-shirts and coffee mugs will be sold when they change it. If you cant see this then your blind to history, racism and progress. One fact that is always ignored is that the primitive indigenous people on this continent were extremely brutal to each other before the arrival of Caucasians.

Many tribes avoided the Ohio area because of the Iroquois who not only killed each other but killed other tribes too.

Their brutal caricature would not look in anyway as good as Wahoo! You are moron The Europeans where here first then the Native Americans came and committed genocide against Europeans then we came back over here claimed the land that was already ours in the first place. After all it was to honor the Indian player Sockalexis, and Wahoo was after another Cleveland Indian Reynolds, they should be proud that it was to honor the Indian not make fun of their kind.

What terribly, horribly racist comment. Wake up man, we are 20 years removed from the 90s. Keep the chief. Everyone else needs to stop being offended by everything. That is one nasty, racist comment. Perhaps you ought to go back and apologize or even go to school so you can learn how to write proper English. Longfellow borrowed the meter from the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, which was compiled in the early 19th century from folk and literary sources.

So, Sockalexsis is memorialized in a meter that was popularly identified with Indians, but was borrowed from the Finns. Sometimes I asked one of them what they thought of the poetical not political drawing.

As for me, when I look at this old poetical drawing, it also brings to life in my mind and heart, some of those in my own family and old friends who are no longer a palpable part of my life. If you do not have Native American blood in you, then please stay out of this argument. For those of us that are not Native American, we have no right to say what is or is not offensive to those people.

Honestly, some Native Americans find these mascots offensive, but most hate it when white liberals try to get involved and represent Native Americans in their views. What we are doing is removing any reference to Native Americans and how is that not offensive? I appreciate how the advocates for PC purity are unwilling to see the difference.

My oh my, i have never seen that level of emotion in reaction to a Rust belt article. Welcome to the big leagues beltmag. For whatever reason this resonates with people. Active racism is likely not at work here. There are a couple of heritages that are in play and none of them are all that incompatable.

A pro wahoo point of view need not mean that anti Wahoo stances are personal and offensive. One approach that i have yet to hear in this discussion follows. They may not be against the Indian name, but are surely uncomfortable with the Chief portrayal. Is it possible the team organization might ask their opinion and input for some sort of graphic symbol that they would support?

I think that is entirely a maybe. I can think of several representations that evoke all the integrity, bravery and history of a proud tradition. Second generation Clevelander,Western Reserve stock. I would like the City of Cleveland and the team to become thoroughly educated about the goods many warts stemming from his shady past and employ him as a professor of sorts on the Native name issue and the countless others to Ohio and beyond. Much of US fanbase really love him,identify with him.

Actually giving the love,fessing up to claim the history and organize to give back to country. Wahoo could brand a regional multi phase movement,like a drunk of years that rehabs and starts doing good. L wrote and posted about this and Me on My facebook a little bit ago. RedSeattle Go Indians! But if we are to refer to history, then the real point to be made here is that the Native Americans Indians were almost completely wiped out by the European settlers. A holocaust of epic scale.

Allegorically, if my mom says something racist, she needs to shut up even though I love her. Brad, Such an excellent, well-researched article. Interesting article however it wonders some and is weak on focus. And the illustration is probably the least offensive in the long line of racist symbols.

Pure and simple; there is no rational justification for keeping a logo that has its formation and origin in Nazi and KKK playbooks. Everyone knows that if we stereotyped another ethnic group one with more members and or political influence with such a characterization there would be riots.

And, just to clarify a common and continuing error — the term Brave does not refer to heroism as in brave soldier. The term Brave from its origin refers to a savage, caveman like stereotype — think Neanderthal. I hate spiders and they are some of the few things that scare me. Right or wrong, history is history. There are many more important issues facing our world than the innocent logo of the Cleveland Indians baseball club. Go Tribe. It is irritating that people find the logo offensive when it is meant to honor our history.

Apart from that sure his face is red but his hair is blue his headband is white his teeth are white his feather is red. His hair is blue Red white and blue.