To read more on the impact of Native American team names and mascots, see Kevin Gover’s commentary “Dear Dan Snyder: Don’t pick a new Native-inspired team name” in the Washington Post.

Native American mascots or logos are used by the Kansas City Chiefs in the NFL, the Chicago Blackhawks in the NHL and the Atlanta Braves in the MLB, as well as countless college and high school teams.

To understand the controversy surrounding Native American mascots, it is important to know the definition of a mascot. Mascot is defined as “a person, animal or object adopted by a group as a symbolic ...

CAMBRIDGE – Cambridge students will no longer be called "the Indians" as they play under a mascot of a Native American. The sports teams' nickname, and the mascot--a Native American man's head ...