Native American mascot controversy
CONTROVERSY OVER MASCOTS DEPICTING NATIVE AMERICANS, FIRST NATIONS PEOPLE, AND OTHER INDIGENOUS CHARACTERS
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Since the 1960s, the issue of Native American and First Nations names and images being used by sports teams as mascots has been the subject of increasing public controversy in the United States and Canada. This has been a period of rising Indigenous civil rights movements, and Native Americans and their supporters object to the use of images and names in a manner and context they consider derogatory.