Native People Are #NotYourMascot
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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4.1 • 905 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Why is Washington DC's professional football team changing their offensive name? In part because of people like Jacqueline Keeler, who helped create the #NotYourMascot movement.
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| 0:00.0 | There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:17.1 | This week marks Indigenous People's Day, a day to honor and commemorate Native people and an opportunity to re-examine having a national holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus, a murderer. |
| 0:28.9 | It's catching on with seven states officially celebrating Indigenous People's Day and more commemorating the day via proclamations. |
| 0:36.2 | And it's really representative of how a shift |
| 0:38.7 | in cultural attitudes can lead to meaningful widespread cultural shift, which brings me to my city's |
| 0:45.4 | football team name. For as long as I can remember, Washington, D.C.'s professional football team |
| 0:50.9 | has been a slur, and native activists have been trying to do something |
| 0:54.9 | about it for years. Dan Snyder, the owner of Washington, D.C.'s professional football team, |
| 1:01.3 | announced the team would be changing their name earlier this summer. But don't give Snyder |
| 1:05.7 | too much credit for doing the right thing. It was only after pressure from corporate and political |
| 1:10.3 | interests, fanned by years of work by activists, that he did anything at all. And we doing the right thing. It was only after pressure from corporate and political interests |
| 1:10.8 | banned by years of work by activists that he did anything at all. And we can't talk about the |
| 1:15.8 | name change without also talking about those native activists. Their brilliance, their labor, |
| 1:21.5 | and their ability to imagine that things could be different. In 2014, Jacqueline Keeler created |
| 1:26.8 | the Not Your Mascot movement on social media |
| 1:28.8 | to take action against what she calls Native masquetry in sports and all indigenous cultural |
| 1:34.4 | misappropriations. My name is Jacqueline Keeler and I am a journalist based on of Portland, |
| 1:40.5 | Oregon. So what was your upbringing like? Well, I am Native American and both of my parents |
| 1:46.4 | are enrolled in different tribes. My father is Yankton Sioux from South Dakota, and my mother is |
| 1:54.0 | Navajo from Arizona. And they actually met in Cleveland, Ohio, through relocation. And Cleveland, Ohio was a relocation center. |
| 2:03.6 | And there were a number of these around the country. |
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