coasterville95
11-22-2010, 04:22 PM
Latest casualty - Miami (OH) orders its band and students to discontinue use of a pep band melody referred to as the "Scalp Song"
You may recall this is the same school that ejected a student for wearing an Indian headdress at a football game earlier this season.
The same school that changed mascots several years back.
Wonder when said school is going to have to change its name - I mean if they really want to distance themselves from being associated with the Native American. I guess they could call it Oxford (OH).
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As we head towards Thanksgiving where we are reminded of the gift of corn (maize) by the American Indian, it seems that there are people who want to erase every tribute to the Native Indian under the rationale that "It is disrespectful and offensive to the Indian" It seems that sports have been hit particularly hard for this. I'm sure there may have been a team or two that didn't portray their Indian mascot in the most admirable way, but is that any reason to get rid of all of it. If I recall, most of the fuss is put on by 'do-gooders' that have no relation to the Native Americans but do have a relation to getting their names in the paper and causing a rukus. I'm thinking of times were a journalist actually took the time to ask an Indian for their take on the whole deal, and they were for the school or team that was honoring the legacy
It's a part of our history, either a proud part of our history or something that we acknowledge could have been handled better, depending on your point of view. I wonder of the do-gooders are really about tryng to eliminate constant reminders of that 'things we could have handled better" aspect of American Indian relations.
I still like the comment that the student sporting the headress should have claimed he was either an indian, or a decendant of an indian, and that he was wearing his native war attire for the 'war' on the field. Too bad, that would have been interestign to watch any PR department try to backpedal from.
School: "Sorry sir, we must ask you to remove your headress"
Indian: "Why"
School: "Fans are not allowed to come in costumes that are disrepectful to the American Indian"
Indian: "But I *AM* an Indian, and I find it appropriate"
School: "Yeah, right. You can stay, but the headress has got to go"
<Indian gets ejected from game, goes on to call the ACLU and the media>
Glad there is nothing lucrative about a band of do-gooders rushing to the aid of the French, and schools "being disrespectful to the history of the French people".
You may recall this is the same school that ejected a student for wearing an Indian headdress at a football game earlier this season.
The same school that changed mascots several years back.
Wonder when said school is going to have to change its name - I mean if they really want to distance themselves from being associated with the Native American. I guess they could call it Oxford (OH).
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As we head towards Thanksgiving where we are reminded of the gift of corn (maize) by the American Indian, it seems that there are people who want to erase every tribute to the Native Indian under the rationale that "It is disrespectful and offensive to the Indian" It seems that sports have been hit particularly hard for this. I'm sure there may have been a team or two that didn't portray their Indian mascot in the most admirable way, but is that any reason to get rid of all of it. If I recall, most of the fuss is put on by 'do-gooders' that have no relation to the Native Americans but do have a relation to getting their names in the paper and causing a rukus. I'm thinking of times were a journalist actually took the time to ask an Indian for their take on the whole deal, and they were for the school or team that was honoring the legacy
It's a part of our history, either a proud part of our history or something that we acknowledge could have been handled better, depending on your point of view. I wonder of the do-gooders are really about tryng to eliminate constant reminders of that 'things we could have handled better" aspect of American Indian relations.
I still like the comment that the student sporting the headress should have claimed he was either an indian, or a decendant of an indian, and that he was wearing his native war attire for the 'war' on the field. Too bad, that would have been interestign to watch any PR department try to backpedal from.
School: "Sorry sir, we must ask you to remove your headress"
Indian: "Why"
School: "Fans are not allowed to come in costumes that are disrepectful to the American Indian"
Indian: "But I *AM* an Indian, and I find it appropriate"
School: "Yeah, right. You can stay, but the headress has got to go"
<Indian gets ejected from game, goes on to call the ACLU and the media>
Glad there is nothing lucrative about a band of do-gooders rushing to the aid of the French, and schools "being disrespectful to the history of the French people".