current events

The clash between Native Americans and Americans has not ended. Currently there are several problems between the two. One of the problems is the use of Native American symbols as mascots. Native Americans say that these symbols are offensive. No other culture in the United States has had a mascot made out of them. This offensive symbolism has also occurred in Germany where the Germans have “named their soccer teams the “Jews”, “Hebrews,” and the “Yids” while adorning their uniforms with grotesque caricatures of Jewish faces..” but people think that it is most offensive that this is the only race that is being made into a mascot. Why is this only happening to Native Americans? On the other side people see these mascots as a part of their team’s history and tradition. This debate has even become violent in some places where car tiers have been slit and there have been protest. Some have mad the change of their mascot, while others continue with the tradition.
There has also been an incident with Native American burial sites that have been made into to oxford’s sports park. Just recently the bodies have been discovered and have been reburied in a different place. Native Americans are anger about this because the new burials have not been done with the aid of a Native American representative. This problem stared because white Americans took the land from a Native American tribe, with out much knowledge of the land. The oppression of Native Americans through history has continued. And now the effects on the race have become evident.