Coming up, on the road to now.

This is 2016, and we are progressive enough to know we don't wear blackface anymore.

We don't do gross racial stereotypes of people on television anymore, and you know, you don't

see breakfast at Tiffany's with the awful depictions of Asian Americans on television.

Those are not things that we do anymore.

It seems like we've made that progress

with just about every other group aside from Native American people. One of the arguments

that's often made against people who are activists on this issue is, you know, oh, this is

just part of some PC world. This is a part of some PC movement, some modern day thing. In fact, I

would argue, and I am arguing in this book that I'm writing, that Native

people and allies have been making these arguments about Native representations since the day

that the first blocks were laid in the federal buildings of the United States Capitol.

I think that Native people are some of the most resilient people in this country.

We've literally survived just about every single attempt to eradicate or destroy our cultures.

I'm Bob Crawford, and this is The Road to Now.

Last week, Ben and I sat down with Tara Houska, executive director of Honor of the Earth,

co-founder of Not Your Mascots, and an advisor to the Bernie Sanders campaign,

and Joe Janetin Palawa, and assistant professor of history at George Mason University.

We discussed the recent Washington Post poll that found 9 out of 10 self-identifying Native Americans

were not offended by the Washington football

team's mascot.

This poll immediately evoked a lot of outrage from a lot of Native American citizens across

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