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Are sports team names racist or celebratory of Native American peoples?

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This is a complicated question but the common thinking that sports teams, being profit making ventures that are largely controlled by white men, are racist for appropriating Native American imagery for the profit of the very people who subjugated the Native Americans historically.

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