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Vincent Schilling
@VinceSchilling
So the #Superbowl this year is the @49ers and the Kansas City @Chiefs.

As a former Sports Editor, and as a Native American journalist, I have a few things to say about this #AppropriationBowl.

First, the Chiefs are not honoring Native people. I'll explain in a #Thread.
@49ers @Chiefs I typed 'Kansas City Chiefs' into Twitter Gif's and the offensive image of a man doing the Tomahawk Chop in a headdress is the third image to come up.

Also, did you realize the @Chiefs got their name from a non-Native man who formed a fake Indian Boy Scout tribe, the Mic-O-Say.
@49ers @Chiefs As I wrote in my article: "The creation of the Mic-O-Say by Harold Roe Bartle, a non-Native man with a 25-cigar-a-day habit and a booming voice, was the man behind the catalyst leading to the eventual creation of the name for the Kansas City football team, the @Chiefs."
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