NYTLN+: Is It Offensive for Sports Teams to Use Native American Names and Mascots? + IMAGE

[Ryan Goble]

A cross-post from our small - but growing -Sports & Literacy group:

 

On the heels of President Obama's comment that he would, "consider getting rid of the Washington Redskins name if he owned the team" this 2001 poster that went viral:

Covered HERE @ CBS Cleveland and, with a lot of interesting background and media literacy content HERE at Slate.

Then - as is always the case with current events - a great lesson plan appeared from the New York Times Learning Network in my inbox...

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Read the complete lesson plan here.