A few weeks ago, as I walked through security at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, a T.S.A. I’m a Native American woman, and my hair is part of my spirit. Varying degrees of disrespect — from slurs to theft of land — are part of daily life for indigenous people in the United States. On Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs will play the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl. Chiefs fans will don headdresses and mark themselves with red paint to perform the “tomahawk chop,” a wordless chant complete with a swinging motion of the forearm, caricaturing what they believe is Native American culture.

Source: New York Times February 01, 2020 15:56 UTC