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2 months ago in Sports schristian FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2018, photo, Kansas City Chiefs fans chant and do the chop during the second half of the teams NFL football game against the Los Angeles Chargers in Kansas City, Mo. The Kansas City Chiefs have since barred headdresses and war paint amid the nationwide push for racial justice, but its effort to make its popular “war chant” more palatable is getting a ...

Friday, February 5th 2021, 12:54 pm By: CBS News A Native American rights group is planning a protest on Sunday urging the Kansas City Chiefs to retire the teams name and stop fans from using an in-game tomahawk chop ahead of Super Bowl LV in Tampa.  Alicia Norris, co-founder of the Florida Indigenous Rights and Environmental Equality (FIREE), is one of the people leading the demonstration set to take place near Raymond James Stadium, where the Chiefs will play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for t...

By Christopher Brito Symbolic Justice A Native American rights group is planning a protest on Sunday urging the Kansas City Chiefs to retire the teams name and stop fans from using an in-game tomahawk chop ahead of Super Bowl LV in Tampa.  Alicia Norris, co-founder of the Florida Indigenous Rights and Environmental Equality (FIREE), is one of the people leading the demonstration set to take place near Raymond James Stadium, where the Chiefs will play the Tampa Bay Buccaneer...

A pedestrian walks past a downtown Kansas City mural painted in support of the Kansas City Chiefs ahead of Super Bowl LV. Pressure is mounting for the team to abandon a popular tradition in which fans break into a “war chant” while making a chopping hand motion. Getty Pressure is mounting for the Super Bowl-bound Kansas City Chiefs to abandon a popular tradition in which fans break into a “war chant” while making a chopping hand motion designed to mimic the Native American tomahawk. Loc...

Kansas City Chiefs under pressure to ditch tomahawk chop celebration Pressure is mounting for the Super Bowl-bound Kansas City Chiefs to abandon a popular tradition in which fans break into a "war chant" while making a chopping hand motion designed to mimic the Native American tomahawk. Local groups have long argued that the teams chop tradition and even its name itself are derogatory to American Indians, yet the national attention focused for years on the Washington football teams use of the n...

WKBT February 4, 2021 8:15 AM Associated Press Updated: February 4, 2021 9:43 AM Pressure is mounting for the Super Bowl-bound Kansas City Chiefs to abandon a popular tradition in which fans break into a “war chant” while making a chopping hand motion designed to mimic the Native American tomahawk. Local groups have long argued that the team’s chop tradition and even its name itself are derogatory to American Indians, yet the national attention focused for years ...

St. Pete group to protest indigenous imagery used by Chiefs on Super Bowl Sunday Matthew McClellan reports ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - With the Kansas City Chiefs getting ready for a second consecutive appearance on the biggest night in sports, the defending champions are attracting renewed attention over the teams use of Native American imagery. The St. Petersburg-based group "Florida Indigenous Rights and Environmental Equality," or FIREE, is planning a protest right outside Raymond James Stadium ...

Pressure is mounting for the Super Bowl-bound Kansas City Chiefs to abandon a popular tradition in which fans break into a “war chant” while making a chopping hand motion designed to mimic the Native American tomahawk. Local groups have long argued that the teams chop tradition and even its name itself are derogatory to American Indians, yet the national attention focused for years on the Washington football teams use of the name Redskins and the cartoonish Chief Wahoo logo, long the emblem...

Updated: 9:47 AM CST Feb 4, 2021 The Associated Press Pressure is mounting for the Super Bowl-bound Kansas City Chiefs to abandon a popular tradition in which fans break into a “war chant” while making a chopping hand motion designed to mimic the Native American tomahawk.Local groups have long argued that the team’s chop tradition and even its name itself are derogatory to American Indians, yet the national attention focused for years on the Washington football team...

Relief for oil: As more people get coronavirus vaccines, demand for fuels like gasoline will tick back up. That should raise the price of oil - and provide relief to the companies that sell it. What else? Producers will be much leaner next year, now that theyve cut spending, and that may inspire investors to load up on energy stocks. Still, there will be pain ahead for oil firms until demand for fuel returns. Experts we spoke to offered up different dates for when that might happen, includin...