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Dec 06, 2016

Fight over Washington's nickname continues in wake of Standing Rock

As Native American protestors appear to have achieved victory in North Dakota, another group continues to do battle with the capital’s NFL teamAt 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. Related: Dakota Access pipeline: US denies key permit, a win for Standing...

Oct 21, 2016

The long decline of Haskell Indian Nations University's all-conquering football team

Haskell, once the nation’s most prominent Native American college team, used to beat the likes of Michigan State. But now the program is no moreState Route 10 in Kansas ambles from the western suburbs of Kansas City into Lawrence, a college town of 90,000 with the 28,000-student University of Kansas and the 1,000-student Haskell Indian Nations University, founded in 1884 for Native Americans. Route 10 tightens from a four-lane highway and becomes 23rd Street in Lawrence, and off the street loom two 5,500-seat concrete grandstands and a noble stone archway. This is Haskell Memorial Stadium, which was dedicated on 30 October, 1926, 90 years ago this month. Haskell’s male students provided much of the labor to keep the cost to...