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(The women's teams, though by the 2010s long since re-dubbed "Marlets", had previously been known as the "Squaws".) [7] Others, including indigenous students and Washington State University professor C. Richard King, argue that the name itself is generally used as a disparaging term for indigenous peoples, reinforcing stereotypes and white ...
Many sports team mascots are named for an ethnic group or similar category of people. Though these names typically refer to a group native to the area in which the sports team is based, many teams take their names from groups which are known for their strength (such as Spartans or Vikings), despite not being located near the historic homes of these groups.
Name comes from a play about a Native American from the Wampanoag people of New England. [26] Mingo Junction - Mingo is common nickname for the Ohio Seneca people. Variant of Mingwe, what the Lenape once called the related Susquehannock Indians of Pennsylvania. Mississinawa - Miami. Name of a river tributary to the Wabash.
All three existing National Basketball Association teams that previously used Indigenous imagery have stopped doing so. (See Prior usage list below). Bendigo Braves (Bendigo, Victoria) play in the South East Australian Basketball League; Guaiqueríes de Margarita, - named after an Indigenous people of Northern Venezuela also known as the Waikerí.
The people who became known as Mingo migrated to the Ohio Country along the river in the mid-eighteenth century, part of a movement of various Native American tribes away from European pressures to a region that had been sparsely populated for decades but controlled as a hunting ground by the Iroquois League of the Five Nations.
Natchez, Louisiana – present-day village in Natchitoches Parish; after the Natchez people; Opelousas – for the native Appalousa people who formerly occupied the area; Ponchatoula is a name signifying "falling hair" or "hanging hair" or "flowing hair" from the Choctaw Pashi "hair" and itula or itola "to fall" or "to hang" or "flowing".
At Ohio History Connection, Alligood works with full-time NAGPRA cataloger Stephanie Kline, a part-time NAGPRA assistant and a handful of unpaid interns, often students from Ohio State University ...
Eldon Miller (born June 19, 1939) is an American former college basketball coach. The Gnadenhutten, Ohio [1] native has led four different programs in 36 years of coaching: at Wittenberg University (1962–70), Western Michigan University (1971–76), Ohio State University (1977–86) and the University of Northern Iowa (1987–98). [1]