The Washington Commanders won’t be changing their name back to Redskins, team President Jason Wright told 106.7 The Fan. Washington’s namesake has created a stir for decades as many Native American leaders said it was racially insensitive to call the team “Redskins.” In July 2020, the nickname changed to Washington Football Team. The organization referred to NAGA as a “fake group.”NATIVE AMERICANS LEADING REDSKINS PETITION OUTRAGED THAT WASHINGTON COMMANDERS REP CALLED THEM ‘FAKE GROUP’“We’re not a fake group. We’re tribal-enrolled members from tribes across the United States,” Eunice Davidson, co-founder and president of NAGA, told Fox News Digital. It was an effort, he said, fueled by woke professors and academics to erase Native American history from the nation’s sports and pop-culture lexicon.

Source: Fox News August 31, 2023 08:32 UTC