I say your factual evidence as to the names offense or the belief of native americans that it should be changed to be nonexistent.
Native Americans and organizations opposed[edit]
The following groups have passed resolutions or issued statements regarding their opposition to the name of the Washington NFL team:
Tribes[edit]
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians[154]
Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma[154]
Comanche Nation of Oklahoma[154]
The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (Washington)[154]
Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians (Michigan)
Hoh Indian Tribe[155]
Inter Tribal Council of Arizona[156]
Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes[157]
Juaneño Band of Mission Indians (California)[154]
Little River Band of Ottawa Indians (Michigan)
Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians, Gun Lake Tribe (Michigan)[158]
Menominee Tribe of Indians (Wisconsin)[154]
Oneida Indian Nation (New York)[159]
Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin[154]
Navajo Nation Council[98]
Penobscot Nation[160]
Poarch Band of Creek Indians[161]
Samish Indian Nation (Washington)[162]
Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians (Michigan)[163]
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes (Idaho)[164]
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (North Dakota)
The Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (North Dakota)[165]
United South and Eastern Tribes (USET)[166]
Organizations[edit]
Advocates for American Indian Children (California)
American Indian Mental Health Association (Minnesota)
American Indian Movement[167]
American Indian Opportunities Industrialization Center of San Bernardino County
American Indian Student Services at the Ohio State University
American Indian High Education Consortium
American Indian College Fund
Americans for Indian Opportunity
Association on American Indian Affairs
Buncombe County Native American Inter-tribal Association (North Carolina)
Capitol Area Indian Resources (Sacramento, CA)
Concerned American Indian Parents (Minnesota)
Council for Indigenous North Americans (University of Southern Maine)
Eagle and Condor Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance
First Peoples Worldwide
Fontana Native American Indian Center, Inc. (California)
Governor’s Interstate Indian Council
Greater Tulsa Area Indian Affairs Commission
Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council (Wisconsin)
HONOR – Honor Our Neighbors Origins and Rights
Kansas Association for Native American Education
Maryland Commission on Indian Affairs
Medicine Wheel Inter-tribal Association (Louisiana)
Minnesota Indian Education Association
National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)
National Indian Child Welfare Association
National Indian Education Association
National Indian Youth Council
National Native American Law Student Association
Native American Caucus of the California Democratic Party
Native American Finance Officers Association (NAFOA)[168]
Native American Journalists Association[169]
Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio
Native American Journalists Association
Native American Rights Fund (NARF)
Native Voice Network
Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs
Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi (Michigan)
North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs
North Dakota Indian Education Association
Office of Native American Ministry, Diocese of Grand Rapids (Michigan)
Ohio Center for Native American Affairs
San Bernardino/Riverside Counties Native American Community Council
Seminole Nation of Oklahoma
Society of Indian Psychologists of the Americas
Southern California Indian Center
St. Cloud State University – American Indian Center
Tennessee Chapter of the National Coalition for the Preservation of Indigenous Cultures
Tennessee Commission of Indian Affairs
Tennessee Native Veterans Society
Tulsa Indian Coalition Against Racism[170]
The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
Unified Coalition for American Indian Concerns, Virginia
The United Indian Nations of Oklahoma
Virginia American Indian Cultural Resource Center
Wisconsin Indian Education Association
WIEA “Indian” Mascot and Logo Taskforce (Wisconsin)
Woodland Indian Community Center-Lansing (Michigan)
Youth “Indian” Mascot and Logo Task force (Wisconsin)
Individuals[edit]
These prominent Native Americans have put their opposition to the Redskins' name on the public record:
Sherman Alexie (author, Spokane)[171]
Notah Begay (Navajo, PGA pro golfer) called the Redskins' name "a very clear example of institutionalized degradation of an ethnic minority."[172]
Clyde Bellecourt (Ojibwe, co-founder of the American Indian Movement)[173]
Bob Burns (Blackfeet elder)[174]
Vine Deloria, Jr. (Sioux, historian/author)[175]
Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Northern Cheyenne, U.S. Senator)[176]
Kevin Gover (Pawnee, director of The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian)[177]
Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne/Hodulgee Muscogee, author/activist)[178]
Litefoot (Cherokee/Chichimeca, rapper) ironically celebrates Native American team names as "recreational genocide" on the track 'Stereotipik'.[179]
Russell Means (Oglala Lakota, activist/actor)[180]
Billy Mills (Sioux, Olympic gold medal winner)[181]
Ted Nolan (First Nations Ojibway, NHL player and coach)[182]
Buford Rolin (Creek tribal chairman)[183]
Shoni Schimmel (Umatilla, Louisville Cardinals guard, class of 2015)[184]
Charlene Teters (Spokane, artist/lecturer)[185]
W. Richard West Jr. (Cheyenne) - President of the Autry National Center in Los Angeles: Redskin is "an openly derogatory term. It always is and it always has been.” West also characterizes the Original American's Foundation as an "attempt to divert attention from the fact that his team’s nickname is coming under increasing heat from people who think it’s an offensive racial term."[186]