A Native American tribe in California whose leaders aggressively back Democrat candidates has raked in millions of taxpayer dollars for needy families while operating a lucrative casino, a watchdog found. 
The American Accountability Foundation released a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Trump-Hating-Tribe-Thrives-on-Casino-Profits-and-Government-Largesse-.pdf">report</a> Tuesday, first shared with The Daily Wire, revealing that the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians has taken $28 million in federal grant funding since 1996 while operating one of the largest casinos in the country. The bulk of the money, roughly $27 million, has come since 2008, six years after the casino opened.
“The Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians has been quietly raking in millions of taxpayer dollars for years — while openly attacking President Trump and conservative Americans,” American Accountability Foundation President Tom Jones told The Daily Wire, saying that the tribe should lose funding because of its partisan advocacy and lucrative casino revenue. 
Tribal leaders, many of whom live in million-dollar homes, openly campaigned against President Donald Trump and for Democrat candidates like Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris. Chief Mark Macarro has given thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates and has been pictured aboard Air Force One with former President Joe Biden, according to the report. 
Other key tribal leaders also have a history of partisan advocacy, the American Accountability Foundation found. 
Victor Rocha, Macarro’s cousin and an official with the Indian Gaming Association, has a history of donating to Democrats. On a Threads account appearing to belong to Rocha, he <a href="https://www.threads.com/@victorpechanga/post/C8yM9x-RPW8?xmt=AQF0p-umsAdqzJfGGO9GbCwwntbrKy7oyR3biF3KkRmZug">posted</a> that it was “okay to punch Nazis and Heritage Foundation members in the face.”
Tribal council members Catalina Chacon and Joe Murphy, Tribal Treasurer Amy Minniear, and Tribal Secretary Nichole Sutter all have links to the Democratic Party.
Neither Macarro, Rocha, nor any of the tribal council members responded to a request for comment.
Chacon, Minniear, and Sutter have all given hundreds of dollars to Democratic candidates, while Murphy has <a href="https://www.facebook.com/joe.murphy.1004/posts/pfbid0jGb9gQiqyj9EuhiLEiN2CRofFgyLEpTAB4JNzEPejJA686JfBmoNggfeHcAZ85Qql">urged</a> voters to “Make America Deep Blue Again” and be a “climate voter.” Minniear has been pictured with Democratic Senators <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10224543524750942&amp;set=pcb.10224543526870995">Alex Padilla</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10224543524990948&amp;set=pcb.10224543526870995">Mark Kelly</a>.  Chacon, Minniear, and Murphy all have or have owned million dollar homes, the American Accountability Foundation found.
Since 2008, the tribe — which has around 1,823 members — has <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/search?hash=6e48f55c2210b8cf3df2c1a000670eee">taken</a> over $13.4 million in grants from the Department of Health and Human Services, around $6.9 million from the Environmental Protection Agency, $2.4 million from the Department of the Interior, $2.2 million from the Justice Department, and hundreds of thousands more from the Departments of Energy, Homeland Security, and others.
At the same time, the tribe operates a casino that generates an <a href="https://growjo.com/company/Pechanga.Net">estimated</a> $484.4 million in annual revenue. A 2012 CBS <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/casino-tribe-outcasts-claim-they-were-unfairly-expelled-over-greed/">report</a> found that members of the tribe made over $20,000 per month from casino revenue, while one ex-member put the number at around $30,000.
Since 2011, the tribe has received over $12 million through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) grant program, according to the American Accountability Foundation. In 2018, the tribe received over $900,000 in TANF funding, the same year the Pechanga Casino <a href="https://blogs.pechanga.com/newsroom/newest-largest-casino-west-coast-pechanga-resort-casino-unveiled-grand-opening-march-3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">completed</a> a $300,000 million expansion. 
“Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to bankroll the Perchanga tribe’s lavish lifestyles and radical views, especially when individual tribe members are raking in tens of thousands a month from casino profits. That’s not an ‘impoverished community,’ it’s a corrupt one,” Jones said. “Time to shut the spigot off and stop subsidizing them!” 
In addition to TANF grants, the tribe was given $368,583 from the EPA in 2024 to purchase a new dump truck and water tanker to promote “clean air.” In another EPA grant from 2025, the tribe was given $100,000 under the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” to fund an ozone monitoring system. 
In 2023, the tribe was given $185,000 “to develop or enhance climate action plans that establish near-term and long-term greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction goals and develop strategies to address the highest priority sectors to help the tribe(s) or territory achieve those goals.”
Macarro, who the watchdog reports lives in a $3 million mansion in Temecula, has a long history of donating to Democratic candidates. In 2024, he <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=MACARRO%2C+MARK">contributed</a> over $2,000 to Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign and has given thousands of other contributions to the campaigns of Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Al Franken. 
“Vice President Harris has been a critical voice behind the Biden-Harris administration’s unprecedented accomplishments for tribal nations,” he <a href="https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/081424_harris_native_voters/">said</a> in a YouTube endorsement video. “As president, Kamala Harris will continue this progress. She respects our ideals of self-governance and self-determination.”
He met with Biden on Air Force One in December 2024, where he <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ncai1944/posts/pfbid02Jd8sozpPSZMomiC4jkBYeJq7Bg2YGrnJrDM5KLxjgqKaq2mmKoTgSyTfhhqh1Daql">spoke</a> to the president about granting clemency to Leonard Peltier, an American Indian radical activist convicted of murdering two FBI agents. In one of his final acts in office, Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-agents-association-blasts-biden-for-commuting-sentence-of-cop-killer">commuted</a> the sentence of Peltier, allowing him to transition to home confinement from federal prison. 
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Maccarro has vocally opposed Trump, decrying cuts to American Indian boarding school research and Trump’s plan to shut down the Department of Education. 
“Let us be clear: This is not just an administrative change — it’s an attack on the fundamental right of Native students to a quality education that reflects their identity, history, and sovereignty,” Macarro <a href="https://www.ncai.org/news/ncai-condemns-executive-order-to-dismantle-the-u-s-department-of-education">said</a>. “The trust and treaty responsibilities of the United States are not optional. Dismantling the Department of Education is a betrayal to Native Nations and future generations.”
Macarro and his wife, Holly, a political strategist, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C5owUJrrp9h/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1">were guests</a> at a state dinner hosted by the Bidens at the White House in April 2024. Holly was also a vocal advocate for commuting Peltier’s sentence, and has been <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/ClEpJ1uPmd4/?hl=en">pictured</a> with Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

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Taylor Swift kicked off her Toronto concert Thursday night with a &#8220;land acknowledgment&#8221; a common practice among left-wing activists who believe they live on &#8220;stolen land.&#8221;
&#8220;We acknowledge that we are performing today at Rogers Centre, located on Treaty 13 lands,&#8221; read a graphic projected on stage before Swift&#8217;s performance. &#8220;We acknowledge the First Nations, Inuit, and Metis peoples whose original and treaty territories we stand upon.&#8221;
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Taylor Swift put out a Native American land acknowledgment at her concert tonight. She has single handedly solved injustice. You go girl ✊🏿 <a href="https://t.co/q95fTDtf8O">pic.twitter.com/q95fTDtf8O</a>
— Cam (@cam0795) <a href="https://twitter.com/cam0795/status/1857214353562357988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Treaty 13 refers to the <a href="https://mncfn.ca/the-toronto-purchase-treaty-no-13-1805/">Toronto Purchase of 1805,</a> in which the British government purchased the land that is now Toronto from the Mississauga tribe. Swift has become increasingly political in recent years, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dnc-targets-young-voters-for-kamala-with-taylor-swift-themed-snapchat-filter">endorsing</a> Vice President Kamala Harris and praising Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for being pro-abortion.
Once a feature of far-left organizations, land acknowledgment have become popular among liberals in recent years. The 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/dnc-opens-land-acknowledgment-forcibly-removed-tribal-nation">opened</a> with a statement that the convention was taking place on land where a Native American tribe had been &#8220;forcibly removed&#8221;
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-school-districts-across-the-country-say-america-was-built-on-stolen-land">reported</a> earlier this year that over 100 public school districts in the United States have “land acknowledgement statements,” many of which say the United States was built on “stolen land” and committed genocide.

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A clip of Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris">Kamala Harris</a> voicing her support for changing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/columbus-day">Columbus Day</a> to Indigenous Peoples&#8217; Day is circulating online, and the Trump campaign has responded.
Harris made her opinion of the holiday and its honoree clear during her failed 2020 presidential campaign and during her time in the Biden-Harris administration, as it was the first to issue a presidential proclamation of Indigenous Peoples&#8217; Day to be honored alongside Columbus Day, a federal holiday established by Congress.
“Every October, the United States has recognized the voyage of the European explorers who first landed on the shores of the Americas,” Harris said during the speech at the National Congress of American Indians Conference in 2021. “But that is not the whole story. That has never been the whole story.”
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“Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations — perpetrating violence, stealing land and spreading disease,” Harris continued. “We must not shy away from this shameful past. And we must shed light on it and do everything we can to address the impact of the past on native communities today.”
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Kamala Harris on Columbus Day:
&quot;European explorers ushered in a wave of devastation, violence, stealing land, and widespread disease&quot; <a href="https://t.co/3XijDf5Ldo">pic.twitter.com/3XijDf5Ldo</a>
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The Trump campaign addressed this issue in a <a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/7c40eb9a-9c4b-475e-b410-cf72bb72457e">press release</a> on its official website. The document noted that Harris had exclusively celebrated Indigenous Peoples’ Day over Columbus Day each year and that she told a voter she would support renaming the federal holiday for good.
“Kamala Harris is your stereotypical leftist. Not only does she want to raise taxes and defund the police — she also wants to cancel American traditions like Columbus Day,” Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
“President Trump will make sure Christopher Columbus’ great legacy is honored and protect this holiday from radical leftists who want to erase our nation’s history like Kamala Harris,” Leavitt added.
“For generations, Indigenous people have protected their lands, languages, knowledge, and traditions. On Indigenous Peoples&#8217; Day, we honor these many contributions and recommit to working alongside Indigenous people to ensure their communities thrive for generations to come,” Harris <a href="https://twitter.com/VP/status/1711425541872484390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">tweeted</a> last year on Columbus Day.
“On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we pay respect to Tribal Nations and indigenous history. Today and every day, let us continue to celebrate and uplift the rich contributions of Indigenous peoples—their leadership has made our country stronger,” she <a href="https://x.com/VP/status/1579480621788774400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">shared</a> in 2022.

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You know, I was so impressed with the Democratic National Convention, I’ve decided to change the format of my show to make it more like the DNC. So, for instance, before I begin today, I’d like to acknowledge that the land I’m podcasting from is the traditional home of the Cherokee or the Chickasaw or the Chickamauga or the Chick-Filet or whatever the hell these primitives called themselves while they sat around half-naked in ridiculous little conical tents smoking pipes full of God-knows-what before the Europeans came and brought air conditioning and civilization and things like that.
And I want to honor with gratitude the land itself which, okay, doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense since it was just a bunch of dirt before we built stuff on it like Yankee Stadium and superhighways and other things the Indians didn’t think of because, let’s face it, they never even invented the wheel. They just sat around most days wondering why it was so hard to get the wagons to move until they finally went back to smoking their pipes because, really, who needs wheels when you’re stoned out of your mind?
Still, we honor the land, because we want to sound as spiritual as the Democrats at their convention or in fact as spiritual as any bunch of unintelligible paganized atheists gleefully returning to the bloody practice of human sacrifice or women’s healthcare or whatever they’re calling it nowadays. 
So we honor the land and all those who lived upon the land until one day they looked up and saw ships that had crossed the entire Atlantic ocean while they were sitting around smoking and wondering why their wheel-less wagons were just gathering dust like a pile of useless two-by-fours — or, who even knows, maybe one of them tried to say something like, “Hey, wait, if we put some big circular objects underneath these wagons, we could roll them somewhere,” but he probably got the old arrow — Pfft! — right in the forehead, because the rest of the tribe was, like, hey, keep it down, we’re smoking here and watching those beautiful ships coming this way — from what they probably thought was another planet since they didn’t even know there were other continents and, meanwhile, the Europeans were zipping around from one continent to another until they could take over that Indian land and, thank God, start building something useful on it.
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Now some of you may be thinking, well, wait, you say Europeans took the land from the Cherokees, but didn’t the Cherokees take it from the Chickasaws who took it from the Chick-Filets who took it from the Dixie Chicks so that basically the whole history of the continent was just a bunch of half-naked chicks fighting, like at that bar I sometimes go to with the mud pit and the wet t-shirts. Man, I love that place.
Anyway, all these half-naked chick tribes were busy killing one another until suddenly they looked up and there were the Europeans and it was, like — Boom! — how do you like my AR-15 firestick, Indian-man? And the Indians were, like, “Holy crapum, we should’ve invented the wheel, then we could have rolled our wagons to the gun store and bought some of those firesticks so we could wipe out these Europe guys like we did with the Chickadees or the Chick Magnets or whoever it was we were killing when those ships arrived from another planet.
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But all the same, I want to acknowledge them because they were people too almost, and just like the Democrats at their convention, I want to give them the sense that I care about their suffering without actually caring about their suffering or indeed without actually doing anything, except what I’m doing right now which doesn’t cost me a thin dime but makes me feel great about myself.
So that’s my Democrat-style land acknowledgement, and if its cynicism and insincerity make you feel hypocritical, you can always comfort yourself by using your iPhone to order overnight delivery of a laptop from Amazon, and kick back and enjoy the wonderful fruits of European expansion. Then, just like the Democrats, we can all finally stop blaming ourselves for settler imperialism and get back to blaming the Jews.
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Day Four Of The 2024 Democratic National Convention

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When it comes to marijuana, I always go back to the question: Has the legalization of weed in any city made that city better?
You might ask: What do you mean by better?
Well, is that city now a better place to live — for anybody? Has it solved any problem? Has it helped anything? Give me something that has been helped. Show me a city where they&#8217;ve legalized weed and something about that city, something tangible, has improved. Show me. You can&#8217;t, because it hasn&#8217;t. It has not made anywhere a better place to live. There is no example, because it always works the opposite way and we all know it.
Having people walk around stoned all the time has made everything worse. It has improved nothing, absolutely nothing. It has created problems and solved none. So it&#8217;s a bad idea. If you&#8217;re going to do something that is guaranteed to make nothing better, while making a lot of things worse, then you shouldn&#8217;t do it. It&#8217;s really that simple.
And this, by the way, is why I <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9frDNHLvqHY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">changed my mind</a> on it personally.
I was recently debating this on X/Twitter — where all the very fruitful debates happen. Somebody pulled one of my favorite moves where they say, “This is what you&#8217;re saying on this topic now, but let me see if you&#8217;ve always said this exact thing.” And someone “scandalously” discovered that back in 2018 I sent out a tweet where I was advocating for legalizing marijuana.
They didn&#8217;t have to go search through my tweet history; they could have just asked me and I would tell them, “Yes, that used to be my position.”
I used to be in favor of legalizing marijuana. I was. And I was wrong. I changed my mind; you&#8217;re allowed to do that. Just because you say something now, you don&#8217;t have to say exactly the same thing forever until you die. Not only are you allowed to process new information and change your opinion, but you also should. You should be open to new information and your opinion should be open to change depending on that new information.
That&#8217;s what happened with legalizing marijuana. I was never militant about it. It&#8217;s not something I personally want to engage in but I was generally persuaded by the arguments people made in favor of it.
What changed my mind? Well, it really wasn’t an argument anybody made on the other side. I simply saw in practice what happens. I heard all the arguments from the weed advocates saying, “Oh, yeah, we can legalize it, and here&#8217;s what the results will be.” Foolishly, I believed that argument. Then, when we did legalize it, I saw that none of that happened. In fact, everything the prohibitionists said would happen did happen and none of the positive results that the advocates promised panned out. So, of course I changed my position.
It&#8217;s not even a valid position anymore to be in favor of weed legalization because we&#8217;ve all seen the results in front of our faces. There&#8217;s really nothing else to say about it, which is why you then get a bunch of clichéd slogans shouted at you by the potheads.
As an example, I was having this debate recently when someone tweeted this — and I&#8217;m using this because it is like a rundown of the most clichéd arguments. They tweeted:
<blockquote>Badcall, alcohol and cigarettes are far worse. God created it. [Weed] It hasn&#8217;t killed anybody. Veterans need it for PTSD, etc. A Democrat made it illegal decades ago. Joe Biden is against it and thinks it&#8217;s a gateway. Drug prohibition is unconstitutional.</blockquote>
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Bad call. Alcohol and cigarettes are far worse. God created it. It hasn’t killed anybody. Veterans need it for ptsd etc. a democrat made it illegal decades ago. Joe Biden is against it and thinks it’s a gateway drug. Prohibition is unconstitutional.
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I&#8217;m using this as an example because this is the classic rundown of pro-weed arguments we hear all the time. Every tweet that anyone puts out in favor of weed legalization, it&#8217;s always like that or some variation.
There are a few problems with these arguments.
First of all, there are many substances that exist in the natural world that you&#8217;re not supposed to put in your body. So, saying, “God created this stuff” is dumb. Even back when I found the pro-weed argument, legalization argument persuasive, I was never persuaded by that because it&#8217;s so stupid.
What? God created it, so therefore it&#8217;s automatically a good idea to light it on fire and inhale it? There are a whole lot of things God has created that you should not light on fire and inhale. There are a lot of things God has created that you should not consume in any form.
If you&#8217;re lost in the woods, for example, and you&#8217;re starving, and you stumble across some kind of a bush with berries and without any prior knowledge say, “Well, God created these berries, so they must be okay to eat. God created them.” If you make that assumption enough times, you will definitely die because God has created a lot of poisoned berries. There are a lot of poisonous things in the world that you&#8217;re not supposed to consume. So the “God created it” line is true, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that it&#8217;s okay to consume.
As for alcohol and cigarettes, even if alcohol and cigarettes are worse, that still doesn&#8217;t mean that weed should be legal. By that logic, all you’ve done is add to the problem. And saying that it hasn&#8217;t killed anyone is just false. For one thing, it ignores the deaths caused by people under the influence and ignores all the volumes of research about all the negative health side effects. Even if I agree that alcohol and tobacco products are just as bad or worse, that&#8217;s not an argument for legalizing yet another bad thing.
It&#8217;s sort of like, if I was morbidly obese, but I didn&#8217;t drink alcohol, and then you said, ”Well, you&#8217;re already obese. You might as well be a binge drinker too.” That logic doesn&#8217;t make any sense. That only makes sense in a kind of defeatist suicidal way. That&#8217;s quite literally a suicidal argument when you&#8217;re saying, “Well, these other bad things are happening.” So let&#8217;s just add another bad thing? Let&#8217;s give up, basically? That doesn&#8217;t make sense.
Also, alcohol and tobacco have been a part of American culture since the beginning of this country. That&#8217;s one of the reasons why any effort to totally ban them has not been successful — because it&#8217;s just an ingrained part of American culture. Tobacco in particular helped build this country from the very beginning. So did alcohol. Now, I&#8217;m not saying that this is a definitive reason to not ban them, but it is a reason not to ban them. And it&#8217;s a pretty good one, actually. Tradition matters. History matters. Tobacco and alcohol have been a part of our culture. Historically, marijuana has not.
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Somebody brought up that Native Americans smoked it and so it is part of American heritage.
I think it&#8217;s true that Indian tribes had marijuana — I haven’t done a lot of research on this — but I don&#8217;t think that they had it prior to contact with the New World. As far as I&#8217;m aware, marijuana was introduced to the native tribes in the 15th or the 16th centuries. But even if they didn’t smoke marijuana, the native tribes did smoke peyote. They had other kinds of drugs with hallucinogenic properties. So it is probably true that even if it wasn&#8217;t exactly marijuana, it&#8217;s probably true that the drug habits of Native American tribes were closer to the drug habits of Americans today.
Think about that for a second. Native tribes were 5,000 years behind the civilized world. They were stuck in the Stone Age. Many of them didn&#8217;t have the wheel. They didn&#8217;t have written language. Many of them — not all — were nomadic tribes, hunter-gatherers. They were extremely primitive, even by 16th century standards. So the fact that they were also high all the time perhaps should tell us something. We know that a society with people smoke tobacco constantly and drink whiskey from morning to night can also be a highly functional, highly successful society.
We know that because that was our society. That was our society in the 20th century when we accomplished all of the things we accomplished — we were winning world wars and landing on the moon. We went from horse and buggy to the moon landing.
So we know that the greatest civilizations in the history of the Earth have at least had booze, and people were constantly drunk. Our own civilization had tobacco and booze. Now, I&#8217;m not saying that tobacco and booze made us great, exactly, but it did not prevent our greatness. There is no evidence on a societal scale that having easy access to legal tobacco and booze will precipitate a societal collapse. There&#8217;s no evidence of that because we&#8217;ve seen a society that is drowning in nicotine, caffeine, and booze — America has run on those things. So we&#8217;ve seen that. We know that.
What about a society full of stoners and druggies? Can that kind of society thrive? There&#8217;s no evidence of that. There has never been a society of people who are drugged out of their mind, stoned, that has thrived. There are plenty of societies that have engaged in those sorts of activities and they live in mud huts.
They struggled to invent the wheel. That&#8217;s what that kind of society looks like.
And if we want to end up back there, if we want to just decline all the way and take this thing full circle, then that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going to happen.
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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’

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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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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