FTN-CIFF Interview Series-(Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascots)Yancey Burns & Ben West 9/27/22

Josh & Devan welcome Yancey Burns and Ben West from Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascots film. Examining the movement to eliminate the use of Indigenous slurs, names, logos, images and gestures that many Indigenous is demeaning and offensive.  The impact that caricatures like Chief Wahoo, gestures like the Atlanta Baseball & Kanas City Football teams “tomahawk chop” and epithets like the Washington football team have on the Native community, the sports community and society in general.

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