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A Native American activist ripped the Kansas City Chiefs in an op-ed published hours before the team is set to take on the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LVII.<\/a><\/p>\n

Rhonda LeValdo, a member of the Not in Our Honor Coalition and the subject of the documentary “Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting,” implored the organization to change its name and completely remove the so-called tomahawk chop celebration.<\/p>\n

The piece was published in Rolling Stone and was titled “The Super Bowl\u2019s Kansas City Chiefs Are a Cruel Insult to Native Americans.”<\/p>\n

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“With another Super Bowl coming up, the Kansas City football team once again chooses to make a mockery of Native cultures and people with their \u2018arrowhead\u2019 chop, offensive name, and overall bastardizing of our traditions,” LeValdo wrote. “There is statistical data that shows it has an impact on our people. But why do we need to prove this with quantitative data? If someone says it hurts them, we should believe them! No other group of people needs to prove this with numbers to say, \u2018Oh okay, I believe them now.\u2019”<\/p>\n

She likened the U.S. government\u2019s establishment of Native American reservations and the deaths that occurred during that time to the Holocaust. She insisted it wasn\u2019t about being politically correct but putting the trauma Native Americans have suffered in the forefront of everyone\u2019s minds.<\/p>\n

“This is not about being politically correct,” she wrote. “It is about understanding the atrocities and continued historical trauma we as Native people face through the stereotypes that Kansas City football perpetuates.”<\/p>\n

LeValdo will be joined by others from Kansas City and tribes in Arizona to protest against the Chiefs in Glendale before Super Bowl LVII takes place at State Farm Stadium.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs have been the target of protests<\/a> in the past.<\/p>\n

Team president Mark Donovan has said there has been no indication for changes to the name.<\/p>\n

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“We also respect that we need to continue to educate and raise awareness of the Native American culture and the things we do to celebrate, that we\u2019ve done more over the last seven years \u2013 I think \u2013 than any other team to raise awareness and educate ourselves,” he said.<\/p>\n

Kansas City has banned fans from donning headdresses<\/a>, war paint and clothing at Arrowhead Stadium. The team attempted to change the tomahawk chop celebration with cheerleaders using a closed fist and an open palm.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs started as the Dallas Texans in 1960 and moved to Kansas City in 1963. Mayor H. Rose Bartle got permission from the Northern Arapaho at the time and the team recently documented tribal officials confirming it, Donovan said.<\/p>\n

“We haven\u2019t released it yet. We are waiting for the right timing to tell the story right,” he added.<\/p>\n

LeValdo, who is friends with a former Northern Arapaho leader, called the assertion “fake” earlier in the week. She said Native American organizers won\u2019t give up on trying to rid major sports of “offensive” mascots, names and imagery.<\/p>\n

“There are young people that come with us as well,” she said. “We\u2019re looking forward to the next generation that\u2019s going to carry that. There\u2019s always going to be Native people who are against it. It\u2019s not going to stop.”<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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