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Native American advocates protest Kansas City Chiefs name ahead of Super Bowl LVII

Native American advocates calling for the “immediate retirement” of team’s name.

A detailed view of the Kansas City Chiefs logo on a fan prior to the AFC Championship Game against the Cincinnati Bengals at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on Jan. 29, 2023 in Kansas City, Mo.

The Kansas City Chiefs are facing scrutiny again ahead of Super Bowl LVII, with Native American advocates calling for the “immediate retirement” of the NFL team’s name, logo, the team’s “war chant” and the “tomahawk chop.”

“There’s no respectful way to mascot us or belittle us and use us for profit,” said Amanda Blackhorse, founder of Arizona to Rally Against Native Mascots (Az Rally), during a press conference on Thursday outside the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

“I’m confident the Kansas City team and the NFL hear the resistance,” Blackhorse added. “After all, groups like Not in Our Honor and the Kansas City Indian Center protest every single home game.”

Blackhorse is set to rally with a group of advocates outside the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona as the Kansas City Chiefs face off against the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LVII.

“The anti-Native mascot movement has always been about the betterment of our Native people, not hatred towards others who are football fans,” said Blackhorse on Thursday. “We want to live in a world where our children can attend school and feel included and not met with reenactments of fake war dances on the football field.”

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According to the website of the Kansas City Chiefs, the team was named for H. Roe Bartle, the mayor of Kansas City in the early 1960s, who was nicknamed “Chief” and played a major role in bringing the Dallas Texans to Kansas City in 1963.

David Garcia speaks during a news conference by Native American advocacy groups, Feb. 9, 2023, in Phoenix. The groups are calling for the NFL football team Kansas City Chiefs to drop their name, logo and their trademark 'war chantâ' where fans make a chopping-hand gesture mimicking the Native American tomahawk.

After the team moved from Texas, they were renamed the Kansas City Chiefs.

“While the origin of the team's name has no affiliation with American Indian culture, much of the club's early promotional activities relied heavily on imagery and messaging depicting American Indians in a racially insensitive fashion,” the team's website says. “Over the course of the club's 60-plus-year history, the Chiefs organization has worked to eliminate this offensive imagery and other forms of cultural appropriation in their promotional materials and game-day presentation.”

After establishing an American Indian Community Working Group in 2014, the team banned headdresses and face paint at games and retired the use of Warpaint as an ambassador of the Chiefs, among other things.

"Really going back seven years ago when we started the dialogue with our American Indian working group here in Kansas City, it was a real learning experience for the organization…I think the important thing on the entire subject has been how important education has been," the Kansas City Chief's Chairman and CEO Clark Hunt said in an undated statement on the team's website. "It's something that's important to the American Indians, both from a cultural heritage standpoint and just preserving their traditions, but it's also a way of educating our fans that these things are offensive to them. We've now expanded our relationship beyond just the group in the Midwest that we've been working with."

ABC News reached out to the Kansas City Chiefs for additional comment.

'Chiefs' mascot may be history in Hillsborough County

TAMPA, Fla. — The Chamberlain Chiefs may soon be a part of history in Hillsborough County Public Schools.

What You Need To Know

• The Chamberlain Chiefs may soon be a part of history in Hillsborough County Public Schools
  
• At Tuesday’s scheduled school board meeting, board members are expected to approve changing the school’s mascot
  
• The Title IV Native American Parent Advisory Council requested that Chamberlain High’s mascot, the ‘Chiefs’ and East Bay High School’s mascot, the ‘Indians’ both be changed to not include Native American names or images

At Tuesday’s scheduled school board meeting, board members are expected to approve changing the school’s mascot.

The Title IV Native American Parent Advisory Council requested that Chamberlain High’s mascot, the ‘Chiefs’ and East Bay High School’s mascot, the ‘Indians’ both be changed to not include Native American names or images.

By design, the school mascot naming process in Hillsborough County is determined by students and staff. Chamberlain High School’s Student Government Association (SGA) surveyed the school community and ultimately recommended that the mascot be changed.

At East Bay High School, the same process was conducted, and students opted to keep their mascot.

The Chamberlain High Chief’s may soon be part of ⁦@HillsboroughSch⁩ history. Students & staff were surveyed and majority agreed to change the school mascot. The school board will vote on the change today. East Bay High chose to keep their mascot the ‘Indians’ ⁦@BN9⁩ pic.twitter.com/Bx4Tez38zg

— Angie Angers (@angie_angers) June 21, 2022

The Florida Indigenous Alliance is organizing a protest outside of Tuesday’s school board meeting regarding this decision.

“The FIA has worked in concert with the Title VI (Native American) Parents Committee of Hillsborough County Schools to end the use of indigenous peoples as a sports mascot.

For nine years, the Title VI Committee worked on educating the students, staff, teachers, administration and some of the alumni at Chamberlain High School relating to the issue of using Native American peoples as a sports mascot. As a result, the students at Chamberlain voted to end the use of Native American peoples as a sports mascot,” the group wrote in a statement. “The Title VI parents have not been afforded the same access or ability at East Bay High School and as a result in a knee jerk reaction in today’s political climate, the students unconscious voted to retain the mascot.”

Erin Maloney spokesperson for Hillsborough County Schools, issued this statement to Spectrum Bay News 9:

“Hillsborough County Public Schools values community input and stakeholder involvement at each school. The district responded to requests from Native American groups to rename student mascots at both East Bay and Chamberlain High Schools.

In keeping with established processes, naming mascots is a student-led initiative at the school level. Both Chamberlain and East Bay High School student government bodies were tasked with meeting Native American advocacy groups and surveying students, staff, and alumna to decide if their current mascots should remain.

Chamberlain’s student government made the recommendation to change the mascot moving forward following input from students, staff, and their alumni association. We look forward to the process and are excited to see Chamberlain students begin a new tradition that will live on for years to come.”

New signage for Chamberlain High will cost roughly $17,000 while expenses for new uniforms, sports and band equipment logos, and banners would total an additional $32,000.

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