Redskin's Trademark Cancelled

[Revmitchell]

Wiki agrees that it's not the source of the name, but the following excerpt from the Wiki site suggests that "absurd" might be an exaggeration:


With Lajoie gone, the Molly McGuires now needed a new nickname. Somers asked the local newspapers to come up with a new name, and based on their input, the team was renamed the Cleveland Indians.[20] Legend has it that the team honored Louis Sockalexis when it assumed its current name in 1915. Sockalexis, a Native American, had played in Cleveland 1897–99. Research indicates that this legend is mostly untrue, and that the new name was a play on the name of the Boston Braves, then known as the "Miracle Braves" after going from last place on July 4 to a sweep in the 1914 World Series. Proponents of the name acknowledged that the Cleveland Spiders of the National League had sometimes been informally called the "Indians" during Sockalexis' short career there, a fact which merely reinforced the new name

Maybe you need to find an actual reliable and credible source.

 

[Deacon]

 

[thisnumbersdisconnected]

Wiki agrees that it's not the source of the name, but the following excerpt from the Wiki site suggests that "absurd" might be an exaggeration:


With Lajoie gone, the Molly McGuires now needed a new nickname. Somers asked the local newspapers to come up with a new name, and based on their input, the team was renamed the Cleveland Indians.[20] Legend has it that the team honored Louis Sockalexis when it assumed its current name in 1915. Sockalexis, a Native American, had played in Cleveland 1897–99. Research indicates that this legend is mostly untrue, and that the new name was a play on the name of the Boston Braves, then known as the "Miracle Braves" after going from last place on July 4 to a sweep in the 1914 World Series. Proponents of the name acknowledged that the Cleveland Spiders of the National League had sometimes been informally called the "Indians" during Sockalexis' short career there, a fact which merely reinforced the new name

This is another reason to steer clear of Wikipedia and never, ever use it for anything. It's source material is even suspect. This is utter nonsense. Here's the real story:

Slate.com: The Real History of the Word Redskin. It's Not What You Think.http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_...hington_football_team_s_name_incorrectly.htmlhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_...hington_football_team_s_name_incorrectly.html

In 2005, the Indian language scholar Ives Goddard of the Smithsonian Institution published a remarkable and consequential study of redskin's early history. His findings shifted the dates for the word's first appearance in print by more than a century and shed an awkward light on the contemporary debate. Goddard found, in summary, that "the actual origin of the word is entirely benign."

Redskin, he learned, had not emerged first in English or any European language. The English term, in fact, derived from Native American phrases involving the color red in combination with terms for flesh, skin, and man. These phrases were part of a racial vocabulary that Indians often used to designate themselves in opposition to others whom they (like the Europeans) called black, white, and so on.

The study by Goddard is fascinating. You should read the whole thing. It was never a "racial slur." It was, in fact, a term used by the Native American tribes of over 200 years ago to self-identify themselves as separate from the "white skins," "black skins," etc.

If you've got Wikipedia bookmarked, lose the bookmark. It is not peer-reviewed, scholar-reviewed, or reviewed at all. I could post an article regarding proof I have that Barack Obama is a Marxist, and it would be up for viewing for days, if not weeks, even though the proof is logical assumptions but no "smoking gun" like a CPUSA membership card or anything solid such as that.