As Native American protestors appear to have achieved victory in North Dakota, another group continues to do battle with the capital’s NFL team
At 10 o’clock Saturday morning, about 1,500 miles east of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, a group of 15 protesters stepped off a bus in windswept Northern Virginia to deliver a stack of petitions with 1,820 signatures, all recently gathered.
This was the second straight year that the group that calls itself Rebrand Washington Football: Fans for a New Name dropped by the headquarters of Washington’s pro football team, advocating a change from the “Redskins” nickname, which is considered offensive by many fans.
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