NY Times · Jul 14, 2020
For Native American Activists, Washington Name Change Was ‘a Long Time Coming’
Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune, via Associated Press
Activists have spent decades pressuring professional sports leagues, college programs and high schools to abandon Native American names and imagery for their teams.
The first domino fell in 1970, when the University of Oklahoma retired its mascot, a Native American named “Little Red.” Over the ensuing years, Division I schools like Stanford, Dartmouth and Syracuse — and thousands of high schools — dropped their mascots or changed their names.
