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I really did not know the history of the word. Yes--its a derogatroy skin color tone word, but its more than that. Did you know this? Taken from Wikipedia?
Some Native American activists in the 21st century, in contradiction of the etymological evidence discussed above, assert that "redskin" refers directly to the bloody, red scalp or other body part collected for bounty.[SUP][33][/SUP][SUP][34][/SUP] While this claim is associated in the media with litigants in the Washington Redskins trademark dispute; Amanda Blackhorse[SUP][35][/SUP] and Suzan Shown Harjo,[SUP][36][/SUP] the NCAI's support indicates that the belief is widespread. Goddard (2005) denies any direct connection to scalping, and says there is a lack of evidence for the claim.[SUP][19][/SUP][SUP]:1[/SUP][SUP][37][/SUP] King (2016) argues that the lack of direct evidence for the assertion does not mean that those making the claim are "wrong to draw an association between a term that empathizes an identity based upon skin color and a history that commodified Native American body parts".[SUP][38]
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The term "red-skin" was, in fact used in conjunction with scalp hunting in the 19th century. In 1863 a Winona, Minnesota, newspaper, the Daily Republican, printed an announcement: "The state reward for dead Indians has been increased to $200 for every red-skin sent to Purgatory. This sum is more than the dead bodies of all the Indians east of the Red River are worth."[SUP][39][/SUP] A news story published by the Atchison Daily Champion in Atchison, Kansas, on October 9, 1885, tells of the settlers' "hunt for redskins, with a view of obtaining their scalps", worth $250.[SUP][40][/SUP] In his early career as the owner of a newspaper in South Dakota, L. Frank Baum wrote an editorial upon the death of Chief Sitting Bull in which he advocates the annihilation of all remaining Redskins in order to secure the safety of white settlers, and because "better that they die than live the miserable wretches that they are."[SUP][41]
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The Redskin Duel, 1914 silent film. The Native American roles were played by Native and Japanese actors.
When Hollywood westerns were most popular, roughly 1920–1970, the term "redskins" was often used to refer to Native Americans when war was imminent or in progress.[SUP][42][/SUP] In the Washington Redskins trademark dispute, the main issue was the meaning of the term in the period when the trademark registrations were issued, 1967–1990. The linguistic expert for the petitioner, Dr. Geoffrey Nunberg, successfully argued that whatever its origins, "redskins" was a slur at that time based upon passages from books and newspapers and movie clips, in which the word is inevitably associated with contempt, derision, condescension, or sentimental paeans to the noble savage.[SUP][43][/SUP]John McWhorter, an associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University, had compared the evolution of the name into a slur to that of other racial terms such as "Oriental" which also acquired implied meanings associated with contempt.[SUP][44]
^^^ That's just terrible. Does Synder know the origin to this word? Imo, he should re-name the team immediately, issue a public apology for ignorance, set aside a few million dollars a year for Native American Scholarships and offer front office jobs to Native Americans.
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Some Native American activists in the 21st century, in contradiction of the etymological evidence discussed above, assert that "redskin" refers directly to the bloody, red scalp or other body part collected for bounty.[SUP][33][/SUP][SUP][34][/SUP] While this claim is associated in the media with litigants in the Washington Redskins trademark dispute; Amanda Blackhorse[SUP][35][/SUP] and Suzan Shown Harjo,[SUP][36][/SUP] the NCAI's support indicates that the belief is widespread. Goddard (2005) denies any direct connection to scalping, and says there is a lack of evidence for the claim.[SUP][19][/SUP][SUP]:1[/SUP][SUP][37][/SUP] King (2016) argues that the lack of direct evidence for the assertion does not mean that those making the claim are "wrong to draw an association between a term that empathizes an identity based upon skin color and a history that commodified Native American body parts".[SUP][38]
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The term "red-skin" was, in fact used in conjunction with scalp hunting in the 19th century. In 1863 a Winona, Minnesota, newspaper, the Daily Republican, printed an announcement: "The state reward for dead Indians has been increased to $200 for every red-skin sent to Purgatory. This sum is more than the dead bodies of all the Indians east of the Red River are worth."[SUP][39][/SUP] A news story published by the Atchison Daily Champion in Atchison, Kansas, on October 9, 1885, tells of the settlers' "hunt for redskins, with a view of obtaining their scalps", worth $250.[SUP][40][/SUP] In his early career as the owner of a newspaper in South Dakota, L. Frank Baum wrote an editorial upon the death of Chief Sitting Bull in which he advocates the annihilation of all remaining Redskins in order to secure the safety of white settlers, and because "better that they die than live the miserable wretches that they are."[SUP][41]
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The Redskin Duel, 1914 silent film. The Native American roles were played by Native and Japanese actors.
When Hollywood westerns were most popular, roughly 1920–1970, the term "redskins" was often used to refer to Native Americans when war was imminent or in progress.[SUP][42][/SUP] In the Washington Redskins trademark dispute, the main issue was the meaning of the term in the period when the trademark registrations were issued, 1967–1990. The linguistic expert for the petitioner, Dr. Geoffrey Nunberg, successfully argued that whatever its origins, "redskins" was a slur at that time based upon passages from books and newspapers and movie clips, in which the word is inevitably associated with contempt, derision, condescension, or sentimental paeans to the noble savage.[SUP][43][/SUP]John McWhorter, an associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University, had compared the evolution of the name into a slur to that of other racial terms such as "Oriental" which also acquired implied meanings associated with contempt.[SUP][44]
^^^ That's just terrible. Does Synder know the origin to this word? Imo, he should re-name the team immediately, issue a public apology for ignorance, set aside a few million dollars a year for Native American Scholarships and offer front office jobs to Native Americans.
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