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Tribal chief: No FedEx until Redskins change team name

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(CNN) -- A Native American chief has asked all tribal employees not to use FedEx until the Washington Redskins changes its team name.
"Until the name of the NFL team is changed to something less inflammatory and insulting, I direct all employees to refrain from using FedEx when there is an alternative available," Osage Nation Chief Geoffrey M. Standing Bear penned in his directive to all employees.
The tribe also issued a news release saying that Redskins owner Daniel Snyder "chooses to stick with a brand which dictionaries define as disparaging and offensive. FedEx chose to endorse that brand through their sponsorship of Mr. Snyder's organization."
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Tribal chief: No FedEx until Redskins change team name - CNN.com

Very interesting. Go after corporate sponsors.
 
I, Jmotivator of the Washington Redskins Tribe ask all Redskins fans to avoid Osage Casinos until Chief Standing Bear grows a brain.
 
On the news last night they had a story about Redskin employees, including Chris Cooley, going to reservations to find out how they really feel and also to give back to the nations. They broke the story after learning the representatives were landing at the airport here.


Washington Redskins send representatives to Kickapoo Reservation | Local News - KETV Home



"I want to do the research and figure out how Native Americans feel. I want to talk to Native Americans from other tribes. You're talking about 500 tribes, sovereign entities. You get a consensus of how these people feel only by going and talking to them,” said Cooley.

Cooley said he’s visited 12 tribes to date, including tribes in Nebraska and Iowa. Other people he traveled with had visited more than 30 reservations all over the nation.

Team representatives reportedly started flying to reservations offering donations to help financially struggling tribes, whether they find the team’s name offensive or not.


“I think it's really good that the Redskins came here, so they can learn more about our culture and our traditions instead of just carrying that name they will have a better understanding of it now,” said Megan Rea Finch, of the Kickapoo Tribe.

"What I've seen from so many Native Americans is that it's a football team. The Redskins name is associated with a football team. You talk to kids and they say, Redskins?' And then they'll say, ‘Oh football players are here,’" said Cooley.

Snyder and the Redskins said they set up the Original Americans foundation to help Native Americans deal with the challenges that plague their lives. However, not every tribe has accepted their help, saying it's a bribe from a team using a derogatory name.

"It's hard for me to watch people say, ‘This tribe got bribed.’ They're not getting bribed. We are asking nothing from anyone. We are talking to people. You say, ‘They have no integrity,’ and that's wrong. They are proud people. There are a number of issues on reservations that a majority of people don't understand,” said Cooley.
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I thought it was kind of cool for them to do that and I'm glad the news reported it.
 
Now I'm going to have to start using FedEx more often! Screw Standing Bear. Get your ass off the idiotic reservation and join the 21st century.
 
Cephus said:
Now I'm going to have to start using FedEx more often! Screw Standing Bear. Get your ass off the idiotic reservation and join the 21st century.
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Idiotic reservation?
 
It's their right to boycott whomever they wish. The publicity they can generate is going to create a bigger stir than any loss of business.

Maybe they can boycott the State of Maryland too.
 
Fearandloathing said:
Good for them.

FFS you still call natives "Indians", a name given them by a sailor lost at sea and starving who thought he was 10,000 miles east of where he relly was. No one on reserves was born in India so it's really time to lose the bigoted crap like "Redskins" and "Braves".
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I feel like I'm the only one here who actually finds being called Indian more offensive than redskin (which I can care less for)...
 
Cephus said:
Now I'm going to have to start using FedEx more often! Screw Standing Bear. Get your ass off the idiotic reservation and join the 21st century.
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Reservations have been and will be ****holes, it is kind of sad.
 
Luftwaffe said:
Reservations have been and will be ****holes, it is kind of sad.
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No, what's sad are people who cling to failed cultures and spend their lives rotting away on a chunk of useless land while the rest of the world passes them by. Anyone on the reservation can get up, go to the big city, get an education, get a good job and live a good life. Anyone who does not, who refuses to get off that chunk of land because of their ridiculous dead culture, is an idiot.
 
Cephus said:
No, what's sad are people who cling to failed cultures and spend their lives rotting away on a chunk of useless land while the rest of the world passes them by. Anyone on the reservation can get up, go to the big city, get an education, get a good job and live a good life. Anyone who does not, who refuses to get off that chunk of land because of their ridiculous dead culture, is an idiot.
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I agree with you. No one in my family (Dad's side, my mum's a full on brit/scot) is on a reservation.

It's stupid to stay on reservations, they stifle opportunity.

Where I won't agree with you is clinging on to a "dead" culture. Personally, I retain 0% of my native culture (because being honest I look Scottish as hell and act American as hell) but I don't think the culture is inferior or dead or anything.
 
Luftwaffe said:
I feel like I'm the only one here who actually finds being called Indian more offensive than redskin (which I can care less for)...
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Canada's treatment of First Nations is pretty ugly, especially the first three quarters of the 20th century. There is huge sensitivity to that here. Also, Indians make up about 30% of this areas population, they resent being called "east Indian" as my friend Bondhar says "I know of no one born in east India."

You simply don't use terms like that here.
 
Luftwaffe said:
I agree with you. No one in my family (Dad's side, my mum's a full on brit/scot) is on a reservation.

It's stupid to stay on reservations, they stifle opportunity.

Where I won't agree with you is clinging on to a "dead" culture. Personally, I retain 0% of my native culture (because being honest I look Scottish as hell and act American as hell) but I don't think the culture is inferior or dead or anything.
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The fact is, American Indian culture, and it doesn't really matter which one you're talking about because they've all suffered the same fate, they all lost the cultural lottery. They didn't succeed, others came along that were more successful and produced superior results. Therefore, sitting around clinging to a culture that is demonstrably inferior doesn't impress me. I don't care about their heritage, I don't care about anyone's heritage, I think it's equally stupid for people to call themselves hyphenated Americans. You're American. Deal with it. Native Americans are Americans. They need to deal with it. Lots of them have and have become extremely successful. Some of them have squandered their lives sitting on a useless chunk of land, dancing around a campfire. Those people have problems.
 
Now comes the Chick Fil A effect.

Some will boycott, while several times more will make a point to support FedEx.

Time to buy some FedEx stock.
 
:roll: Cry more.
 
Erod said:
Now comes the Chick Fil A effect.

Some will boycott, while several times more will make a point to support FedEx.

Time to buy some FedEx stock.
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**** no, I hate Fed Ex! They will rarely leave the package at my doorstep, even when I leave them a note to do so, they ship it between like 3 different places around here, each 30 minutes from each other, so where I have to go to pick it up is inconvenient and random.

All hail UPS...at least they know how to leave a damned package.
 
Erod said:
Now comes the Chick Fil A effect.

Some will boycott, while several times more will make a point to support FedEx.

Time to buy some FedEx stock.
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that'll be hard because UPS is so much better than FedEx. Supporting Chick fli A is easy because its delicious.
 
Cephus said:
The fact is, American Indian culture, and it doesn't really matter which one you're talking about because they've all suffered the same fate, they all lost the cultural lottery. They didn't succeed, others came along that were more successful and produced superior results. Therefore, sitting around clinging to a culture that is demonstrably inferior doesn't impress me. I don't care about their heritage, I don't care about anyone's heritage, I think it's equally stupid for people to call themselves hyphenated Americans. You're American. Deal with it. Native Americans are Americans. They need to deal with it. Lots of them have and have become extremely successful. Some of them have squandered their lives sitting on a useless chunk of land, dancing around a campfire. Those people have problems.
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You don't have to care about their heritage or anyone's heritage.

Only they have to care about their heritage.

Their culture is yet to be proven inferior.

I don't blame you for feeling that way though, we all got our biases. Mine in particular against the Chinese and Muslims.
 
I can't imagine this having much effect on FedEx's business unless more than just tribal members join, which is likely if this gets huge publicity.
 
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