Portland, Oregon – Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry, a group of Native parents and their allies from across the country who launched the hashtag #NotYourMascot and trended it during the 2014 Super Bowl are deeply grateful for the recognition of all our hard work by Utah State University’s Digital Folklore Project as a finalist in their Digital Trend of the Year award. Native people are so often overlooked and the issue of the mascotting of Native people is a prime example of this. An active national campaign for 46 years by the National Congress of American Indians, the largest and oldest representative body for tribes, and by the American Indian Movement and leaders like Suzan Harjo of the Morning Star Institute. Using social media and a hashtag EONM members in the United States and Canada and our allies helped to push this issue to the forefront and build awareness and media coverage of these worthy efforts. Founder, Jacqueline Keeler said, EONM is still working hard on this issue and will once again trend #NotYourMascot during the Super Bowl and is working actively to ban Redface from stadiums and end the mascotting of Native people. The organization had success this summer in getting culturally inappropriate apparel banned from SF Giants games and has been protesting at Nike World Headquarters to get them to stop selling Chief Wahoo and Washington Redsk*ns apparel. dailykos/story/2014/12/09/1350397/--NotYourMascot-Finalist-for-Digital-Trend-of-the-Year?showAll=yes
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:27:13 +0000
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