By CBS News Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
A Native American rights group is planning a protest on Sunday urging the Kansas City Chiefs to retire the team s 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 the championship. Norris told CBS News that the use of the name and chop are dishonorable and disrespectful.
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 team s 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 the championship. Norris told CBS News that the use of the name and chop are dishonorable and disrespectful.
By Christopher Brito Symbolic Justice
A Native American rights group is planning a protest on Sunday urging the Kansas City Chiefs to retire the team s 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 the championship. Norris told CBS News that the use of the name and chop are dishonorable and disrespectful. The Indigenous people of this land have already had a mass genocide approach with regard to their culture and way of living, she said. And when you further dehumanize them and objectify them, it just kind of falls in line with that extinction of who they are.