Ahead of Sunday’s 2021 NFL Super Bowl game, Indigenous groups call for the Kansas City Chief’s to drop their inappropriate use of Native American imagery and traditions. Running Strong for American Indian Youth also urges the Kansas City football team to end the use of their racially and culturally degrading names and logos, and reminds them to become the socially just organization the NFL has pledged to be.
More in this month’s NYCU is a near $5 million dollar grant to Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice to study dispossession of Native American lands in New England, a Two-Spirit couple celebrates their redefining of cultural norms through photographs, and more in this week’s News You Can Use!
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