A newly elected school board in southern Pennsylvania is bringing back one school&#8217;s American Indian mascot.
The school board for the Southern York County School District, about an hour north of Baltimore, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/newly-elected-school-board-pennsylvania-reclaims-indigenous-mascot-rejects-cancel-culture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> 7-2 on Thursday to let Susquehannock High School bring back its traditional logo.
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The school&#8217;s “Warrior Head” logo, which depicts a Native American in a feather headdress with a tomahawk and a pipe, honors the Susquehannock Indian tribe.
The vote comes two months after the district elected five new school board members, who ran on pro-American Indian platforms.
All seven board members who voted to bring back the old logo were elected after another vote to eliminate the logo back in 2020, a move that sparked outrage in the community.
A new logo was created, a &#8220;W&#8221; with an arrow through it, showing &#8220;movement and a forward, upward direction symbolizing the district’s direction in academics, athletics and as a community,&#8221; <a href="https://www.sycsd.org/domain/460" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to graphic communications teacher Wade Bowers.
Critics argued that the push to retire the logo was erasing the area&#8217;s history.
In 2020, the school board&#8217;s diversity committee <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/newly-elected-school-board-pennsylvania-reclaims-indigenous-mascot-rejects-cancel-culture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> that the Susquehannock tribe supposedly never lived in the area of the district.
However, local historians disagree, saying the Susquehannock people were known to reside in the area.
&#8220;The Susquehannock lived in large fortified towns, the largest of which may have had a population of nearly 3,000 people,&#8221; the Susquehanna National Heritage Area <a href="https://susqnha.org/discover-river-history/susquehannock-native-landscape/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> on its website.
&#8220;Their communities were located along the Susquehanna, especially in Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, and York counties,&#8221; the website says.
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Nevertheless, the Southern York County school board at the time went ahead with the vote to remove the American Indian mascot despite a petition against it that garnered 3,800 signatures.
Jennifer and Nathan Henkel, the parents of three children, are two of the new school board members who voted to bring back the old logo.
&#8220;This movement was about erasing Native American culture and I wasn’t about to stand for it,&#8221; Jennifer Henkel <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/newly-elected-school-board-pennsylvania-reclaims-indigenous-mascot-rejects-cancel-culture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News.
“This school was built on Susquehanna land,” one community member said at Thursday&#8217;s meeting. “Those people lived here. You cannot rewrite history. You can’t cancel the past.”
One group that urged the school board to restore the logo was the Native American Guardians Association, which has also <a href="https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/pa-school-district-reinstates-controversial-native-american-logo-cant-cancel-the-past-pennsylvania-southern-york-county-glen-rock-mascot-susquehannock-crisis-in-the-classroom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed</a> for the NFL&#8217;s Washington Commanders to return to its former &#8220;Redskins&#8221; name.
&#8220;The SYCSD school board stands as a role model and blueprint for other communities fighting for their Native names and imagery,&#8221; the group <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/newly-elected-school-board-pennsylvania-reclaims-indigenous-mascot-rejects-cancel-culture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement hailing Thursday&#8217;s vote.

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Parents of a young <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-a-little-scary-young-chiefs-fan-reacts-blackface-accusations-after-painting-face-for-game" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kansas City Chiefs fan</a> — who was accused of &#8220;blackface&#8221; by Deadspin — are threatening to sue the magazine and reporter after the writer blasted the little fan who painted his face half red and half black for the team&#8217;s last game against the Las Vegas Raiders.
Holden Armenta&#8217;s parents, Shannon and Raul &#8216;Bubba,&#8217; have hired Clare Locke LLP to demand a retraction to its story with a headline that read, &#8220;The NFL needs to speak out against the Kansas City Chiefs fan in Black face, Native headdress,&#8221; <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/race-in-america/kansas-city-chiefs-fan-deadspin-defamation-lawsuit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NewsNation</a> reported.
In a letter obtained by the outlet, the Armentas wrote that, &#8220;These articles, posts on X and photos about Holden and his parents must be retracted immediately.&#8221;
&#8220;It is not enough to quietly remove a tweet from X or disable the article from Deadspin&#8217;s website,&#8221; the letter added. &#8220;You must publish your retractions and issue an apology to my clients with the same prominence and fanfare with which you defamed them.&#8221;
The outlet also noted that the Chiefs fan&#8217;s family have threatened further action against the author Carron J. Phillips, Deadspin, G/O Media, and Great Hill Partners.
Last week, Holden and his father appeared on &#8220;<a href="https://x.com/JesseBWatters/status/1730033576404468100?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jesse Watters Prime Time</a>&#8221; to discuss the fan being in the spotlight following allegations of racism from Phillips.
&#8220;It&#8217;s been a lot. It&#8217;s been a pretty crazy couple of days,&#8221; Bubba said. &#8220;I was mad, upset for him. I&#8217;m mad that he&#8217;s upset. He&#8217;s pretty devastated. I mean, he&#8217;s seen the videos and everything posted.&#8221;
Armenta&#8217;s father also said it was &#8220;too late&#8221; for an apology from Phillips.
&#8220;The damage is already done,&#8221; Bubba said. &#8220;It&#8217;s, you know, worldwide. Now there&#8217;s comments all over, there&#8217;s, you know, disrespect towards Native Americans and towards my family. We never in any way, shape or form meant to disrespect any Native Americans or any tribes.&#8221;
Watters then asked Holden how he was holding up.
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EXCLUSIVE: The 9-year-old Chiefs fan, who was falsely smeared as a racist for supporting his team, speaks out on Primetime.
Holden Armenta says this whole thing has been scary and overwhelming. His father, Bubba, says it&#8217;s too late for an apology- the damage is already done. <a href="https://t.co/8T4WsMsvm6">pic.twitter.com/8T4WsMsvm6</a>
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) <a href="https://twitter.com/JesseBWatters/status/1730033576404468100?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
&#8220;It&#8217;s OK because a lot of kids at school are getting excited, but it&#8217;s starting to get me a little nervous because if they go a little bit overboard, it&#8217;s a little scary,&#8221; Holden said.
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Holden’s mom later took to Facebook and defended her son, calling out the sports blog.
&#8220;This has nothing to do with the NFL,&#8221; Shannon Armenta wrote. &#8220;Also, CBS showed him multiple times and this is the photo people chose to blast to create division. He is Native American — just stop already.&#8221;
Holden is from an American Indian family, and his grandfather is on the board of the Chumash tribe in Santa Ynez, California, according to <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-the-young-kansas-city-chiefs-fan-deadspin-tried-to-cancel-over-false-black-face-and-racism-accusations-is-native-american" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Post Millennial</a>.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-a-little-scary-young-chiefs-fan-reacts-blackface-accusations-after-painting-face-for-game" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;It&#8217;s A Little Scary&#8217;: Young Chiefs Fan Reacts &#8216;Blackface&#8217; Accusations After Painting Face For Game</a>

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Parents Threaten Lawsuit After Deadspin Accuses 9-Year-Old Of ‘Blackface’

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A young <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deadspin-writer-torched-for-accusing-child-of-blackface-at-kansas-city-chiefs-game" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kansas City Chiefs</a> fan reacted on Wednesday to allegations by a Deadspin writer who claimed the boy wore &#8220;blackface&#8221; when he painted half his face red and the other black for last Sunday&#8217;s game against the Las Vegas Raiders.
During 9-year-old Holden Armenta&#8217;s appearance on &#8220;<a href="https://x.com/JesseBWatters/status/1730033576404468100?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jesse Watters Prime Time</a>,&#8221; the boy and his father, Bubba Armenta, spoke to the Fox News host about being in the spotlight following the racism allegations by sports writer <a href="https://deadspin.com/roger-goodell-kansas-city-chiefs-fan-black-face-native-1851048905" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carron Phillips.</a>
&#8220;It&#8217;s been a lot. It&#8217;s been a pretty crazy couple of days,&#8221; Bubba said. &#8220;I was mad, upset for him. I&#8217;m mad that he&#8217;s upset. He&#8217;s pretty devastated. I mean, he&#8217;s seen the videos and everything posted.&#8221;
&#8220;It was his dream to get on the jumbotron,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And I&#8217;ve had family and friends call and [say], &#8216;Oh, we saw you on Sunday night football.&#8217; So, he&#8217;s excited. But then everything else came up.&#8221;
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EXCLUSIVE: The 9-year-old Chiefs fan, who was falsely smeared as a racist for supporting his team, speaks out on Primetime.
Holden Armenta says this whole thing has been scary and overwhelming. His father, Bubba, says it&#8217;s too late for an apology- the damage is already done. <a href="https://t.co/8T4WsMsvm6">pic.twitter.com/8T4WsMsvm6</a>
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) <a href="https://twitter.com/JesseBWatters/status/1730033576404468100?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
Watters then asked Holden how he was holding up.
&#8220;It&#8217;s OK because a lot of kids at school are getting excited, but it&#8217;s starting to get me a little nervous because if they go a little bit overboard, it&#8217;s a little scary,&#8221; Holden said.
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The drama began after Phillips accused Holden of finding &#8220;a way to hate Black people and the Native Americans at the same time&#8221; when the boy wore an American Indian headdress and painted half his face red and the other half black to show his support for the Chiefs.
In the Deadspin article, Phillips called out the child&#8217;s &#8220;disrespect&#8221; and only focused on one side of his face. When the writer was criticized online, he just <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deadspin-writer-torched-for-accusing-child-of-blackface-at-kansas-city-chiefs-game" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doubled down</a> on his accusations.
The Community Notes feature on X added a disclaimer saying the writer &#8220;failed to provide full context&#8221; that the boy&#8217;s face paint was in reference to the football team.
Holden&#8217;s mom later took to Facebook and defended her son, calling out the sports blog.
&#8220;This has nothing to do with the NFL,&#8221; Shannon Armenta wrote in her post. &#8220;Also, CBS showed him multiple times and this is the photo people chose to blast to create division. He is Native American — just stop already.&#8221;
Holden is from an American Indian family, and his grandfather is on the board of the Chumash tribe in Santa Ynez, California, according to <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-the-young-kansas-city-chiefs-fan-deadspin-tried-to-cancel-over-false-black-face-and-racism-accusations-is-native-american" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Post Millennial</a>.

‘It’s A Little Scary’: Young Chiefs Fan Reacts ‘Blackface’ Accusations After Painting Face For Game

‘It’s A Little Scary’: Young Chiefs Fan Reacts 'Blackface' Accusations After Painting Face For Game

The young Kansas City Chiefs fan who was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deadspin-writer-torched-for-accusing-child-of-blackface-at-kansas-city-chiefs-game" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused of wearing “blackface”</a> and mocking American Indian culture at the team’s last game “is Native American,” his mother said. 
After Holden Armenta was shown on TV wearing an American Indian headdress with his face painted red and black during the CBS broadcast of the Chiefs and Las Vegas Raiders game on Sunday, leftist sports writer Carron Phillips wrote a piece decrying the young child’s “disrespect” for black people and American Indians. Armenta’s mom, Shannon, took to Facebook on Monday after Phillips’ article was published by Deadspin, defending her young son and calling out the sports blog, NewsNation <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/race-in-america/chiefs-fans-mom-defends-son-racist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
“This has nothing to do with the NFL,” Shannon Armenta wrote in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sunshine5826/posts/pfbid02N4ELzqXFeR8RA9FjPNA9iKYEDfxhMQsdR1s3kMnx5ET4HjnMqiy6iR8wfh7L5cm1l" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a>. “Also, CBS showed him multiple times and this is the photo people chose to blast to create division. He is Native American — just stop already.” 
Holden is from an American Indian family, and his grandfather is on the board of the Chumash tribe in Santa Ynez, California, <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-the-young-kansas-city-chiefs-fan-deadspin-tried-to-cancel-over-false-black-face-and-racism-accusations-is-native-american" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Post Millennial.
Phillips’ piece was roundly mocked on social media after he condemned the young fan for wearing “blackface.” X owner Elon Musk even chimed in after a community note was placed on the article explaining that the photo used in the article only showed the side of Armenta’s face that was painted black and ignored that the other side of his face was painted red, which is the Chiefs&#8217; primary color. 
“Another @CommunityNotes win exposing deception,” Musk wrote.
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Why is <a href="https://twitter.com/Deadspin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Deadspin</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/carronJphillips?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@carronJphillips</a> trying to ruin this little kid’s life? They’re accusing him of blackface but conveniently left out his full face which was painted for the game <a href="https://t.co/kFfgAL4aDH">https://t.co/kFfgAL4aDH</a> <a href="https://t.co/750u5sfETE">pic.twitter.com/750u5sfETE</a>
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Phillips called out his critics in a post on X Monday, writing, “For the idiots in my mentions who are treating this as some harmless act because the other side of his face was painted red, I could make the argument that it makes it even worse. Y’all are the ones who hate Mexicans but wear sombreros on Cinco.”
In his piece targeting the young Chiefs fan, Phillips also threw in a jab at conservatives who take a stand on cultural issues. 
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“This is what happens when you ban books, stand against Critical Race Theory, and try to erase centuries of hate,” he wrote. “You give future generations the ammunition they need to evolve and recreate racism better than before.”

Mother Of Young Chiefs Fan Accused Of Racism Says ‘He Is Native American’

Mother Of Young Chiefs Fan Accused Of Racism Says 'He Is Native American'

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It is Columbus Day. Longtime fans of my show will know that it is a tradition on Columbus Day to talk about the holiday and why it deserves to be celebrated, despite what the leftist crybabies and historical revisionists might say. I will continue with this tradition for as long as the holiday and the man it commemorates remain under attack, which means that I will continue indefinitely.
Now, if you hear Columbus acknowledged at all today in the media or by any political or cultural figure of note, it will almost certainly be a condemnation. They will tell us, as they have been telling us for many years, that Columbus was a genocidal maniac whose arrival led to the alleged genocide of so-called “native Americans” or “indigenous people.” In the same breath, without a hint of irony, they will also decry what they describe as overly simplistic portrayals of Columbus and his voyages — hoping you don’t notice how no portrayal of Columbus is as absurdly and cartoonishly simplistic as the one you get from these very same people. 
As mentioned, I have made the case many times for why Columbus deserves to be celebrated, deserves to have his federal holiday, and his statues, and his cities named after him. The case is pretty straight forward. Christopher Columbus was a very great man, and one of the most consequential figures to ever live on planet Earth. He quite easily had more of an impact than every single one of his modern critics combined — times a thousand. These are the people we give holidays to, or used to. The people who shaped the world. And say whatever else you want about Columbus, he did more than almost any other single person to shape the world we live in today. 
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It’s often said — by idiots who claimed to be intellectually nuanced — that if Columbus did achieve this world-shaping feat, he did it “accidentally.” Even if that’s true, it wouldn’t change his significance or the significance of what he accomplished. But it’s not true. He may have been looking for the East Indies — looking, in other words, for land he knew existed rather than looking for land he didn’t know existed, so could not have been looking for by definition — but there was nothing accidental about his voyage. He didn’t trip and fall and drift across the Atlantic. Rather, he led a small fleet of ships over an unknown ocean, without the use of any modern navigational equipment. Without even a map to guide the way. You would think that this would be impressive to modern people who can’t manage to drive to the Starbucks three blocks away without the assistance of satellite navigation. But that would require modern people to have humility and perspective, both of which are in short supply.
Over the course of his four voyages, Columbus discovered many Caribbean islands and explored the coasts of Central and South America. The full scope of what he had discovered would not be fully understood until after he died, but the fact remains that Columbus brought western civilization across a vast and uncharted and dangerous sea, and into a previously unexplored and unknown hemisphere of the globe. He forever changed the world, and he changed it in a way and to a degree matched by very few other people who have ever lived on the planet — and aside from Jesus Christ, exceeded by perhaps no one. He did this through his courage and daring and brilliance and vision. All things worth admiring and all virtues that Columbus possessed in far greater quantity than any of his smarmy, petty, non-contributing critics. 
Was Columbus also a deeply flawed man? Could he be brutal and unjust? Yes. Welcome to almost any great man who has ever lived. 
Sure, Columbus captured slaves. He executed both Spaniards and Indians under his rule. He took gold. He was by all accounts a bad governor. This was a common flaw of explorers of the era. Many of them were brilliant on their ships but incompetent or downright horrible on solid ground. Magellan made it three-quarters of the way around the world before getting himself killed in a needless conflict with a tribe in the Philippines. A certain type of man was needed to navigate a fleet of ships across uncharted waters. A different kind of man was needed to manage settlements. Unfortunately, the latter type had no way of getting to the settlement except by hitching a ride with the former. And the former wasn’t often willing to cede control of the land he had just gone through all the trouble of discovering, a somewhat understandable reluctance, I think.
There is nothing wrong with acknowledging the flaws of men like Christopher Columbus. Nobody is suggesting that we should honor them as perfect people or worship them as gods. The point of the statues, the monuments, and the holidays is to remember and celebrate the indispensable role they played in establishing the civilization in which we all now live — a civilization that just so happens to be the freest and most prosperous in the history of the world. Columbus, through his navigational brilliance, boldness, courage, vision, and determination, is one of the men we have to thank for that.
Some people might claim that western civilization is nothing to be thankful for at all. I can’t help but notice, though, that those people still choose to live here, enjoying the comforts and freedoms given to them by the very men whose monuments they deface and holidays they cancel. They claim this is “stolen land,” yet they remain on it, basking in its luxuries. The fact is that they would much prefer to live in the “colonized” version of this land than the alternative. Most Indian tribes were about five to six thousand years behind the more advanced civilizations on the other side of the ocean. If left to their own devices, by now they probably still wouldn’t have even invented the wheel. That is not a world that any supposed opponent of “colonization” would want to live in, no matter what they say.
Which brings us to the day that has come to replace Columbus Day. Now you will hear most people in the mainstream talk about “Indigenous Peoples” day. Joe Biden recognized “Indigenous Peoples Day” in a presidential proclamation for the first time two years ago. In many corners of American society, it has entirely supplanted Columbus Day. But Indigenous Peoples Day is a total farce, a disgrace, and a joke, for several reasons. 
First, it isn’t a real holiday, it’s a political statement. A protest. A thing invented specifically to overshadow Columbus Day. Leftists don’t understand why this is a problem because everything they do is reactive in this way. Their whole cultural agenda is designed to supplant, destroy, dismantle the old traditions and values. They have no ideas of their own. Nothing new or interesting to say. They just have a bunch of things they don’t like and want to destroy for reasons they can barely articulate. Columbus Day celebrates one of the greatest historical figures to ever live. Indigenous People’s Day is a political tactic meant to undermine that same historical figure. So, if you want a real holiday in order to celebrate “Indigenous people,” then get your own day. Try for once to come up with one idea that isn’t designed to simply be the opposite of someone else’s idea. Think for yourself for a change, you halfwit plagiarists. 
Second, the underlying premise of the day is false. This is supposedly a day to acknowledge the people whose land was stolen by European settlers, but the whole “stolen land” thing is preposterous. There were <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Native-American/Native-American-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">maybe as low</a> as one or two million Indians living on the entire North American continent by the 15th century. At most, there were 15 or 20 million. The point is that the vast, vast majority of the land was unoccupied; North America was mostly an untamed, unexplored, uninhabited wilderness. The smattering of tribes spread out across 9 million square miles did not own the whole thing. People these days talk as if the Europeans had no right to come here in the first place (an interesting assertion from open borders advocates), but that is obviously absurd on its face. The tide of civilizational expansion and progress was not going to be held back forever. And the idea that a rag tag collection of warring stone age tribes somehow laid eternal claim to this entire hemisphere is just insane. The land was destined to be conquered by more civilized and advanced people, and it was, and thank God it was. 
Third, the whole concept of “indigenous people” is arbitrary, if not totally nonsensical. What makes a person “indigenous” exactly? How long does their lineage have to be present here? If I can trace my family back 100 years, is that not good enough? 200 years? 300 years? The absurd reality is that if you are a white person living in the United States of America, and your ancestors arrived here on the Mayflower 400 years ago, you still somehow do not count as either native or indigenous. This is not your native land, even after four centuries. Then where exactly is your native land? If you are not indigenous to this place, the place where you were born, and your parents were born, and your grandparents, and your grandparents grandparents, then where are you indigenous? The answer is nowhere. The cultural powers that be want you to consider yourself ancestrally homeless. You belong nowhere. You are a usurper and an invader no matter where you go. You have no native home, no matter how long your family has lived here.
Nobody applies this standard to the so-called “indigenous people.” None of them “originated” here. They all descend from people who came here at some point in the past and fought over the land and killed each other to claim whatever slice of it they possessed before the white settlers arrived. Those settlers fought for it too, and won. They built a life for themselves through work and toil and hardship and blood. Yet we are supposed to live in a state of perpetual shame over this history. 
Well, I refuse to play that game. This is my home. I am native to this country. I originate here. I belong here. I am proud of our history. I am proud of the men who built our civilization. I celebrate those men. I will continue to celebrate them. Were they colonizers? Sure they were, and I celebrate that too. They colonized. Meaning they forged into an unknown wilderness and built a life for themselves, expanding western civilization in the process. It was a virtuous act. And through it, they earned the right to call this place home, and for all of their descendants through the ages to do the same.
That is why they get the holidays, they earned them.
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Sorry, Redskins fans. The Washington Commanders&#8217; team president just put the kibosh on any effort to bring back the old moniker for Washington, D.C.&#8217;s NFL team.
“It is not being considered. Period,” team president Jason Wright <a href="https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10087795-commanders-jason-wright-reverting-to-old-team-name-not-being-considered-period" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> a local radio station on Wednesday.
The comment comes after the nonprofit Native American Guardians Association (NAGA) <a href="https://www.change.org/p/change-the-washington-commanders-back-to-the-washington-redskins-3db47898-920b-4ba3-b608-9ffe3b4a0adf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently started</a> a petition to change the name back to the Redskins. In 2020, the team changed its name after using the &#8220;Redskins&#8221; label for 90 years. So far, the group has amassed nearly 130,000 signatures in a little over two months.
NAGA also sent the team <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/14/native-americans-calls-for-commanders-name-change-to-redskins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a letter</a> that addressed what the group called the “cancel culture” against the Native American population and the erasure of its “steadfast role in American history, including serving as counselors to the Founding Fathers in the creation of the U.S. Constitution.”
NAGA&#8217;s missive spoke about the history of the Washington football team and its relationship with the Native American community dating back to its 1933 season when they were named the Boston Redskins.
“At this moment in history, we are formally requesting that the team revitalize its relationship with the American Indian community by (i) changing the name back to ‘The Redskins’ which recognizes America’s original inhabitants and (ii) using the team’s historic name and legacy to encourage Americans to learn about, not cancel, the history of America’s tribes and our role in the founding of this Great Nation,” the letter read.
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The group has also defended itself against accusations that it isn&#8217;t a real group.
&#8220;People want to call us fake and they’ve done that before,&#8221; NAGA co-founder and president Eunice Davidson <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/native-americans-leading-redskins-petition-outraged-washington-commanders-rep-called-fake-group" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News. &#8220;They never tell our story and that’s their goal. To wipe out Native history. It’s discrimination when you go after one culture like this.&#8221;
Katie Jerkovich contributed to this report.

LANDOVER, MARYLAND – JULY 13: Hand painted concrete barriers stand in the parking lot of FedEx Field, home of the NFL’s Washington Redskins team July 13, 2020 in Landover, Maryland. The team announced Monday that owner Daniel Snyder and coach Ron Rivera are working on finding a replacement for its racist name and logo after 87 years.

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After a sales manager for the NFL’s Washington Commanders called them a “fake group” when they demanded in a petition that the team return to their original Washington Redskins name, the Native American Guardians Association (NAGA) fired back.
Former luxury box owner Christina King — who relinquished her suite after the Redskins changed their name — had texted Matthew Laux, a premium-seat sales manager for the Commanders and FedEx Field, “This name change WAS, IS &amp; forever will be a major problem,”  adding, “We just signed the petition from NAGA … We will come back as suite owners when the name reverts back to the Washington Redskins &#8230; The team never should have never been pressured into changing the name.”
Laux replied, “You understand the people that started this petition is a fake group, right?” He added, “As a fan of the team I didn&#8217;t want it [the Redskins name] changed either.”
“We’re not a fake group,” NAGA Eunice Davidson, a self-described “full-blooded Dakota Sioux” who is the co-founder and president, fired back. “We’re tribal-enrolled members from tribes across the United States.&#8221; She blasted “racist white woke” college professors and academics, saying, “People want to call us fake and they’ve done that before. They never tell our story and that’s their goal: to wipe out Native history. It’s discrimination when you go after one culture like this.”
Native American historian M. Andre Billeaudeaux, the author of “How The Redskins Got Their Name,&#8221; commented, “These people are just ignorant. It’s toxic ignorance. It’s group think. It’s the psychology of a group that has no idea what they&#8217;re doing, but they won’t listen to us, either. &#8230; Redskins is not about race. It&#8217;s a warrior who&#8217;s gone through the bloodroot ceremony. &#8230; They shave their heads and surrender their souls to their Creator. They paint themselves red as if they were born new into the world.”
“The Redskins were the only minority representation in the entire NFL and it was a real person, not a mascot,”  Billeaudeaux added. “The name Redskins is a national treasure. And for that reason it should be protected. It’s a cultural treasure and deserves to be protected and understood. It’s not just about the football team. It’s about the DNA of the nation.”
“We’re Redskins fans, not Commanders fans,” King argued. “We’re not coming back until the name comes back. They’ve taken these images from sports. They bowed to the woke and they’re trying to erase Native American history.”
The Commanders issued a statement saying, “For nearly 90 years, this franchise had a different name, and many have fond memories of cheering for that team and watching it win three Super Bowls. This does not signify any shift in our approach nor does it change the valid reasons for dropping the name.”
A spokesperson for the team informed <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/native-americans-leading-redskins-petition-outraged-washington-commanders-rep-called-fake-group">Fox News Digital</a> that Laux does not speak for the team.

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A Native American group has threatened a national boycott of the Washington Commanders unless the NFL team reverses course and changes its name back to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-football-team-unveils-8-new-potential-names-or-did-they" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Redskins</a>.
The Native American Guardians Association (NAGA) wrote on <a href="https://twitter.com/GuardiansNative/status/1688544490242359296/photo/3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter — now X —</a> that the group, along with its Founder and President Eunice Davidson, have sent a letter to the &#8220;Washington &#8216;Commanders&#8217; Ownership &amp; Key Leadership Formally Requesting The Team Revitalize it&#8217;s Relationship With The American Indian Community &amp; Rightfully Change Their Name Back to &#8216;The Redskins.'&#8221;
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🚨BREAKING: Native American Guardian’s Association Founder &amp; President Eunice Davidson Sent a Demand Letter Today to Washington &quot;Commanders&quot; Ownership &amp; Key Leadership Formally Requesting The Team Revitalize it&#39;s Relationship With The American Indian Community &amp; Rightfully Change… <a href="https://t.co/cpau4hVq6H">pic.twitter.com/cpau4hVq6H</a>
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In a letter that addressed what the group called the &#8220;cancel culture&#8221; against the Native American population and the erasure of its &#8220;steadfast role in American history, including serving as counselors to the Founding Fathers in the creation of the U.S. constitution.&#8221;
The letter talked about the history of the Washington football team and it&#8217;s relationship with the Native American community dating back to its 1933 season when they were named the <a href="https://sportsteamhistory.com/boston-redskins/#:~:text=The%20team%20was%20founded%20in%201932%20by%20George%20Preston%20Marshall,for%20more%20than%2080%20years." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston Redskins</a>.
&#8220;At this moment in history, we are formally requesting that the team revitalize its relationship with the American Indian community by (i) changing the name back to &#8216;The Redskins&#8217; which recognizes America&#8217;s original inhabitants and (ii) using the team&#8217;s historic name and legacy to encourage Americans to learn about, not cancel, the history of America&#8217;s tribes and our role in the founding of this Great Nation,&#8221; the letter read.
&#8220;Should we need to encourage a national boycott similar to what happened with Anheuser Busch (Bud Light) which is now down $27 billion (note, not one brick thrown, not one highway blocked, not one bridge burned) — WE WILL DO JUST THAT,&#8221; the letter <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/native-american-group-threatens-commanders-boycott-name-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
The letter closed out by noting that in 2023, this &#8220;oppression and arbitrary and capricious recognition of U.S. history and Constitutional rights is not acceptable.&#8221; The group also vowed to stand their ground because, if &#8220;you don&#8217;t acknowledge history, we are doomed to repeat it.&#8221;
In 2020, the team announced it was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/redskins-cave-announce-thorough-review-of-name-here-are-the-top-suggestions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removing Redskins</a> from its name and two years later announced the national professional football team would be called the Washington Commanders.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-redskins-cant-return-to-dc-unless-they-change-their-name-officials-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">name change came</a> about from pressure from the cancel culture mob following the death of George Floyd and those who claimed that the term was racist and offensive to Native Americans.

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Beginning this week, Minnesota teachers must now complete cultural competency training with a special focus on Native Americans.
Per Minnesota law, cultural competency results in <a href="https://www.revisor.mn.gov/rules/8710.0310/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acknowledging</a> personal bias concerning 
“racial, cultural, and socioeconomic groups; American Indian and Alaskan native students; religion; systemic racism; gender identity, including transgender students; sexual orientation; language diversity; and individuals with disabilities and mental health concerns,” and how that bias impacts relationships with students, students’ families, and the school communities.
The Minnesota Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (<a href="https://mn.gov/pelsb/assets/TPM%2520Chapter%25201%2520(1)_tcm1113-473292.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PELSB</a>) first enacted a more general version of cultural competency training in 2020; in April, Native Americans and Alaskan natives were separated into their own category.
In order to pass the training, teachers must meet the <a href="https://mn.gov/pelsb/assets/Standards%2520of%2520Effective%2520Practice%2520(2)_tcm1113-572905.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Standards of Effective Practice</a>. This requires teachers to not only understand the various identities and beliefs of their students, but to affirm them and help them develop “positive social identities based on their membership in multiple groups in society.”
Teachers are further required to not only understand, but support students in the recognition of “dehumanizing biases, discrimination, prejudices, and structural inequities.” Additionally, teachers must demonstrate their respect for and responsiveness to the identities and beliefs of their students both verbally and nonverbally.
PELSB argued that since most teachers are white, they must come to terms with their implicit bias.
“[T]he predominantly white teacher workforce must be equipped to understand their own implicit bias and the unique lived experiences of all their students as a core requirement of teaching,” stated PELSB.
A cultural competency training can cost anywhere from $30 to $670 for two graduate credits.
PELSB’s Committee to Increase Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers approves who provides valid cultural competency training. The committee assumed the responsibility in January 2021.
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Current members of the committee are Angela Osuji, Reuben Moore, Jessa Cook, and Gift Saloka.
The cultural competency training changes didn’t pass without resistance throughout the public input period last year. One group, Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) Twin Cities, <a href="https://www.fairforall.org/twin-cities/wp-content/uploads/sites/78/2022/07/220606-FAIR-TC-Letter-in-Response-to-R4615_FINAL_signed.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> that cultural competence training results in divisiveness through a rejection of common culture and fairness in treatment.
“[This training] prescribes the segregation of students by group or cultural identity (commonly race or gender, but also many others throughout the proposed rule) and the subsequent incessant recognition and affirmation of such segregation,” stated FAIR Twin Cities. “Teachers should encourage each student to examine varying points of view rather than to reflexively conform to views attributed to that student’s groups or cultures.”
However, PELSB <a href="https://mn.gov/pelsb/assets/4615%2520-%2520Prehearing%2520Response%2520-%2520FINAL%2520(Not%2520Accessible)_tcm1113-538152.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended</a> the licensure requirement as necessary for teachers to foster trust with their students and, consequently, impart a proper education.
“[The] pedagogical knowledge of how to create positive learning environments and how to work with all types of learners is essential in fostering student learning,” stated PELSB.

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Days after progressive ice cream company <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-jerrys-posts-anti-american-message-on-july-4th-critics-blast-their-hypocrisy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s</a> called on the U.S. to return &#8220;stolen Indigenous land,&#8221; a Native American chief said the company&#8217;s headquarters, located in South Burlington, Vermont, is sitting on Western Abenaki land.
Chief Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/07/ben-jerrys-hq-is-on-native-american-land-vermont-chief/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the New York Post in an interview, “If you look at the [Abenaki] traditional way of being, we are place-based people. Before recognized tribes in the state, we were the ones who were in this place.&#8221;
The chief said that he “looks forward to any kind of correspondence with the brand to see how they can better benefit Indigenous people.&#8221; Stevens added that if the company is “sincere&#8221; about advocating for Native Americans, the tribe should be hearing from them about the land.
Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s caught <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-jerrys-posts-anti-american-message-on-july-4th-critics-blast-their-hypocrisy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">backlash</a> over an Independence Day post that read, &#8220;The United States was founded on stolen Indigenous land. This Fourth of July, let&#8217;s commit to returning it.&#8221;
A link attached to the post leads to a site that says the U.S. needs to give back Mount Rushmore, which is in South Dakota.
&#8220;What is the meaning of Independence Day for those whose land this country stole, those who were murdered and forced with brutal violence onto reservations, those who were pushed from their holy places and denied their freedom?&#8221; the site reads. &#8220;The faces on Mount Rushmore are the faces of men who actively worked to destroy Indigenous cultures and ways of life, to deny Indigenous people their basic rights.&#8221;
The faces on Mount Rushmore include George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
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This 4th of July, it&#39;s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it. Learn more and take action now: <a href="https://t.co/45smaBmORH">https://t.co/45smaBmORH</a> <a href="https://t.co/a6qp7LXUAE">pic.twitter.com/a6qp7LXUAE</a>
&mdash; Ben &amp; Jerry&#39;s (@benandjerrys) <a href="https://twitter.com/benandjerrys/status/1676214289353572352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2023</a></blockquote>
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South Dakota Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kristi-noem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kristi Noem</a> (R) responded to the post by criticizing the company&#8217;s progressive activist founders for not knowing their &#8220;history.&#8221;
“I’m not going to listen to a bunch of liberal Vermont businessmen who think they know everything about this country and haven’t studied our history,” Noem <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/south-dakota-gov-blasts-ben-jerrys-push-to-return-mt-rushmore-bunch-of-liberal-vermont-businessmen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Thursday. “Right now, Mount Rushmore is the greatest symbol of our freedom and history of the United States of America.”
“We can learn from the men on that mountain,” the governor continued. “We can do better. But, boy, they led us through some challenging times. And I think Americans in this country need some inspiration, and we can gain it from a monument like that.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-jerrys-posts-anti-american-message-on-july-4th-critics-blast-their-hypocrisy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben &amp; Jerry’s Posts Anti-American Message On July 4th; Critics Blast Their Hypocrisy</a>

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Ben & Jerry’s Says U.S. Needs To Give Back ‘Stolen’ Land. Native American Chief Says Company’s HQ Is On Native Land.

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In a 7-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-376_7l48.pdf">upheld</a> a federal statute that forces states to place Native American children with Native families, even if it’s not in the child’s best interest.
The Court rejected several families’ challenge to the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which was created to maintain Native American culture by prioritizing Native families in the adoption of Native children. 
The “issues are complicated” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for the majority in Haaland v. Brackeen, but the “bottom line is that we reject all of petitioners’ challenges to the statute.”
Justice Barrett was joined in the majority by the Court’s three Democrat-appointed justices, along with Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Neil Gorsuch, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.
However, the law prioritizes placing the child in a Native family even if it is not in the child’s best interest and if the Native family is not of the same tribe. The law gives tribal leaders the ability to strip children from non-Native foster families and even to supersede the wishes of the child’s biological parents.
For instance, under the law, a Native child in Minnesota was ripped from a loving non-Native family who wanted to adopt her and given to her grandmother, who had lost her foster license due to a criminal conviction. 
The lead plaintiffs in the case, Chad and Jennifer Brackeen, fostered a 10-month-old child and sought to adopt him after a year, with his parents’ support. However, because his parents were members of the Navajo and Cherokee tribes, and both those tribes opposed the adoption, the child was ordered to be removed from the family and placed in New Mexico under the ICWA.
Several families challenged the law on a few main points. First, they argued that the ICWA was unconstitutional under the 10th Amendment because it violated states’ rights to regulate family matters. Second, they argued that the law creates race classifications and makes race-based decisions, which are unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment.
The Court rejected the federalism claim but did not decide the equal protection claim, leaving it for lower courts to decide.
Barrett argued that because the ICWA applies to both private and public parties equally, the states have no claim that the federal government targeted their rights. She also argued that the federal government has supremacy and that it is normal for state laws to be superseded by federal law.
Justice Thomas wrote a dissent, arguing that the ICWA unconstitutionally encroached on states’ police powers and that the Indian Commerce Clause does not apply to children. Thomas accused the Court of using “loose language” and that the Court’s broad definition of the clause had no basis in the Constitutional text. He also pointed out how many of the children affected would have never stepped foot on a reservation. 
Justice Alito’s dissent attacked the majority opinion on its consequences and argued the Court “loses sight” of what is important in the case — the best interests of the child. Alito walked through the specific cases, showing how under the ICWA, the children would be ripped from loving non-Indian families despite the harms that would occur by doing so — simply because the tribe’s government desired it. 
Justice Kavanaugh wrote a concurring opinion that emphasized the equal protection claim was not addressed, stating the issue is “serious” and challenges “bedrock equal protection principles.”
“Under the Act, a child in foster care or adoption proceedings may in some cases be denied a particular placement because of the child’s race — even if the placement is otherwise determined to be in the child’s best interests,” Kavanaugh wrote. He went on to state the same for prospective foster and adoptive parents — that they could be denied because of their race. 
Justice Gorsuch wrote a concurring opinion, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, that emphasized the horrific treatment of Native Americans throughout American history and the resulting importance of the ICWA. 
The decision was met with praise from the Biden Administration and tribal sovereignty advocates. “Our Nation’s painful history looms large over today’s decision. In the not-so-distant past, Native children were stolen from the arms of the people who loved them,” Biden <a href="https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-native-american-children-adoption-8eee3db1e97cee84a7fdcd98d43df795">said</a> in a statement.
The Cherokee Nation, Morongo Band of Mission Indians, Oneida Nation, and Quinault Indian Nation said in a joint statement, “We hope this decision will lay to rest the political attacks aimed at diminishing tribal sovereignty and creating instability throughout Indian law that have persisted for too long.”
“We are glad to see the Supreme Court recognized the important benefits of ICWA and allowed the law to stand,” the Choctaw Nation <a href="https://www.choctawnation.com/news/news-releases/choctaw-nation-statement-regarding-decision-in-brackeen-v-haaland/">said</a>.

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Elizabeth Hoover, an environmental science <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/colleges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">professor</a> at the University of California, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-california-berkeley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Berkeley</a>, apologized on Monday after she was accused of falsely claiming to have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/native-americans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Native American</a> heritage.
The academic released a lengthy “letter of apology and accountability” on her personal <a href="https://www.profelizabethmhoover.com/identity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> expressing regret for the “hurt, harm, and broken trust” she caused by asserting that she has Mohawk and Mi’kmaq ancestry. She admitted that she had benefited from programs and funding opportunities which were “identity-related or geared towards under-represented people.”
“I hurt Native people who have been my friends, colleagues, students, and family, both directly through fractured trust and through activating historical harms,” Hoover wrote, adding, “I have negatively impacted people emotionally and culturally. For this hurt I have caused, I am deeply sorry.”
Hoover had already released an <a href="https://www.profelizabethmhoover.com/identity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apology</a> in October rescinding her claims to Native American identity, explaining she had been told by her parents that she had associations with the two tribes but noting that census records do not substantiate the claims. Students at Berkeley drafted a collective <a href="https://dailycal.org/2022/12/07/nothing-was-being-done-community-demands-elizabeth-hoovers-resignation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> one month later asking for her resignation, garnering more than 350 signatures from faculty members, organizations, and prior associates of Hoover.
“Growing up I did not question who I was told I was, or how I identified. But as an adult, as an academic, I should have done my due diligence to confirm that my ancestors were who I was told they were,” Hoover continued. “In my twenties and thirties, I lived in different Native communities, where I knew I did not have the breadth and depth of connection that these folks had to Native family, history, and culture. At the time I wrongly felt that my distant connection was enough for me to claim a Native identity alongside them.”
Hoover promised that she would make donations to Native American “farm, food sovereignty, and educational programs,” as well as put away her “dance regalia, ribbons skirts, moccasins, and Native jewelry.” She also vowed to direct future research toward “supporting people and communities with whom I have an authentic relationship and will accept spaces where communities ask me to step back” as part of her “restorative justice” efforts.
Many white academics have incorrectly asserted that they have minority heritage in recent years. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts and a former Harvard Law School professor, infamously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-kidding-warren-speaks-at-native-american-caucus-meeting-for-dnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> she was a Cherokee for nearly four decades but apologized to the nation in 2019 after a genetic test confirmed that she was as little as 0.1% Native American. Jessica Krug, a former history professor at George Washington University, resigned three years ago after she falsely <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/professor-of-african-history-admits-masquerading-as-black-woman-for-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> for years to be African American, and Kelly Sharp, a former professor at Furman University, resigned months later after she incorrectly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-white-professor-resigns-after-claiming-to-be-person-of-color" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> to be Chicana.
Adrienne Keene, an ethnic studies professor at Brown University and a member of the Cherokee nation who previously worked with Hoover, published a <a href="https://nativeappropriations.com/2023/05/a-letter-to-elizabeth-hoover.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> on Tuesday containing extensive research she had conducted into the Hoover family in an unsuccessful attempt to verify their Native American associations.
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“I found no Indigenous ties on the lines that she had claimed, tracing back to her great-great-great grandparents,” Keene remarked. “Her story fell apart very quickly, within a few clicks, but the subsequent months were spent trying every avenue to find something that would explain her claims, triangulating and triple checking, looking in new databases, finding more and new documents, or going back another generation.”
Hoover appeared on an “Alleged Pretendian List,” a spreadsheet created by an activist to expose white people who falsely claimed Native American ethnicity, more than two years ago. Keene had initially started the research in order to exonerate Hoover.

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