Native American activists under attack from cancel culture say they want to stop today’s woke efforts to erase America’s extensive heritage and history.
Both the Kansas City Chiefs and the Boy Scouts of America appear to be erasing traces of their Native American heritage, according to activists and evidence.
Also, Taylor Swift, currently the most famous Chiefs fan in America, is seen by some as a great awakened hope who could bring the franchise to its knees on accusations of racism and end the “tomahawk chop” chants. It is praised by the people.
According to media reports during the football season, the Kansas City-based organization Not in Our Honor said Swift had become an “ally” in their efforts to force the team to end the tradition. He said he was “hoping” that he would.
The popular legacy of Harold Law “Chief” Bartle, the mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, and a member of the Arapaho tribe, could be erased by the fallout. He is a foundational figure in the history of both the Chiefs and the Boy Scouts — at least until he is canceled, American Indians are feared.
Maurice the Native Patriot (@lanativepatriot), a Swinomish Indian and social media influencer from Washington state, said, “This is all about saying we need to divide Native Americans and Americans.” It’s a woke firing squad trying to destroy the United States,” he told Fox News Digital. Last week’s interview.
“It has become commonplace to think that even looking at images of Native Americans is racist.”
Bartle was Kansas City’s mayor in the 1960s, when the AFL’s Dallas Texans moved to Kansas City. According to the team’s website and numerous other sources, the team was renamed to honor his efforts to win the franchise.
Bartle also spent much of his life serving in the Boy Scouts. According to some biographies, he was a champion of civil rights and also passionate about Native American traditions.
But his multicultural heritage is now in jeopardy as both the Chiefs and scouts distance themselves from his Native American roots.
“Native American history is American history,” Tony Henson, executive director of the North Dakota-based Native American Guardian Association (NAGA), told FOX News Digital.
“This effort to divide us comes from ‘America-hating’ Marxists who want to destroy tradition and rebuild America in their own image,” Henson said. Stated.
But the Boy Scouts is “trying to remove all Native American aspects from the program,” one Pennsylvania troop leader wrote in an email obtained by Fox News Digital.
The troop also announced a new insignia to replace the “Native American Chief/Brave Logo” it has used for “over 60 years” in response to what the letter claims is a new directive from the Boy Scouts of America. It is said that they are busy creating it. .
Fox News Digital reached out to the organization, which denied these claims. “There is no national mandate from the BSA to remove all Native American images from the Scouting program,” Boy Scouts of America national spokesperson Scott Armstrong told FOX News Digital in response.
He said the local Boy Scout troop may have “misunderstood” the guidance regarding dialogue with local Indigenous leaders.
“The goal is not exclusion, but proper respect,” Armstrong said.
goals over the years
Kansas City chiefs have been the target of awakened anger for years, demanding the eradication of symbols of Native American identity.
The team’s recent success has drawn attention.
“Taylor Swift is not good. Be like Taylor” signs appear before group “Not in Our Honor” protest popular “tomahawk chop” chant among Chiefs fans before Super Bowl It was used for.
The team has made concessions to protesters in the past and appears to be trying to distance the team from its Native American heritage.
The Chiefs have banned “headdresses and face paint in the stadium on game days.” According to the team’s website, they also retired their Pinto horse mascot, “War Paint.”
The series also appears to be rewriting its own historical narrative, upsetting pro-Native American activists in the process, while rejecting its roots to appease the cancel culture movement.
“The Kansas City Chiefs were named for H. Roe Bartle, the mayor of Kansas City in the early 1960s,” the team claims in its online history, a claim corroborated by numerous sources. There is.
“Mayor Bartle, nicknamed ‘The Chief,’ was instrumental in bringing Lamar Hunt’s American Football League franchise, the Dallas Texans, to Kansas City in 1963.”
However, the team insists that the origin of the team’s name has nothing to do with American Indian culture.
However, this claim is contradicted by nearly every other Bartle biography and team history. Some Indians argue that this also disrespects Native American traditions.
Bartle was a top Boy Scout leader in Wyoming in the 1920s. During that time, he developed a deep admiration for the local Native Americans.
They returned the friendship and welcomed him into their ranks.
“Bartle entered the Northern Arapaho Nation as a blood brother and was sponsored by a chief named Lone Bear,” Scout historians David L. Eby and Paul Myers Jr. wrote in a statement. This is written in a biography of an organization leader.
Native Patriot Maurice and other sources say Bartle is an Arapaho in the eyes of the tribe, no different than an immigrant to the United States who becomes an American by taking the oath of citizenship.
“Just as there is no DNA test to prove you are an American, there is no DNA test to prove you are a tribal member,” he said.
The Swinomish native added that cancel culture has made Native Americans feel like they need to “show their papers” to prove their heritage in a way that other Americans don’t. Ta.
Bartle founded the Mike O’ Say Tribe in Kansas City in 1925 to “blend the spirit and pride of the American Indian with the ideals and purpose of the Boy Scouts of America,” according to the organization’s website.
Mike O’ Say’s tribe still operates on the H. Roe Bartle Scout Reservation in Kansas City.
However, the NFL franchise now has an American Indian culture, even though its namesake was embraced by the Arapaho people and his life and legacy promoting Native American traditions was initially acknowledged by the team. has nothing to do with it.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to the team several times for comment, and has also reached out to Taylor Swift for comment.
Meanwhile, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) “claimed to be Native American and got away with it purely to advance her career,” said Morris, a Native Patriot, whose identity He pointed out double standards in politics. (She later apologized to Native American groups for her past claims about cultural heritage, saying they had “listened,” “learned” and “I’m sorry for the harm I caused.”)
NAGA’s Henson said, “This effort to erase history and divide us is not where 90% of Americans are. This is not where 90% of Native Americans are.”
