Change the Mascot

There's a powerful video circulating the internet  the last few days, and it addresses the use "redskins" as it is used to described the NFL football term, Washington Redskins. The Washington Redskins has been a source of controversy between NFL owners, Native American groups, fans and the United States government. Some Native American groups insist that the term redskin is a racial epithet and as such perpetuates the demeaning sterotypes of Native Americans. Numerous civil rights, education, athletic, and academic organizations consider any use of native names and/or symbols by non-native sports teams to be a harmful form of ethnic sterotyping which should be eliminated. 

• There are 562 federally recognized tribes in the United States and 4,500,000 U.S Citizens who identtified themselves as having American Indian, Alaskan Native, or Native Hawaiian ancestry (U.S. Census 2005).