11/7 5pm Protest, march and rally. Protest the Use of Native Mascots - Minnesota vs. Washington

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Thursday Night Football National Televised Game
Meet around 5:00 and the March is to start at 5:25 from the Minneapolis American Indian Center - 1530 East Franklin Ave.

Minneapolis, Minnesota to the Mall of America Field followed by a Rally.

Drum groups are invited to bring their big drums or everyone is invited to bring their hand drums.

Idle No More is invited, Churches, and other organizations. We feel this is something that everyone needs to come together on. Red, Yellow, Black and White!!!

Bring a flashlight or eletric candle.

Join the YOUTH! NAACP St. Paul Youth and Collegiate branch and the American Indian Student Association of Augsburg College in our youth rally alongside the American Indian Movement Twin Cities. Meet at the Multicultural Student Services Center at 3:30 at Augsburg College to make signs and begin our march to the Metrodome during the Minnesota Vikings vs Washington Redskins game-- where we will rally against injustices and characterization of American Indians in sport and media with the support of the youth organizers and activists.

https://www.facebook.com/events/514835251944862/

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1. got back just a little bit ago. GREAT turn out and lots of media.

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I always learn from the speakers at rallies. It is so good to go in person.

Great to see so many Natives with jackets or banners of where they were from.


Jesse Venture even spoke.

see to the right of this link to vote if Washington should change their name.
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/23910637/change-the-name-protesters-march-on-metrodome#WNPoll134480


from a someone who just posted her take on the event:

The Washington “Redskins” played the Minnesota “Vikings” football team tonight.
“Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho!
Little Red Sambo has got to go!”
Hundreds turned out for the anti-racist demonstration including Congresswoman Betty McCollum (one of two Native Americans in Congress, co-chair of the Native American Caucus) and ex-Governor Jesse Ventura (who signed the Coldwater protection bill in 2001).
My sign read “Start Seeing Racism.” Last time we responded to the Washington team in town (about 1998) was during the Monica-Clinton fiasco; at that time my sign read “Welcome Washington Cocksuckers.”
The word “redskins” refers to Indian scalps that dried brownish-red before being turned in to government officials for bounty money. The Indian extermination practice began in New England and spread across the colonies with Manifest Destiny expansion. It was prevalent in Minnesota after the Dakota-US war in 1862, the one that concluded with the mass hanging of the Dakota 38, largest mass hanging in America. Little Crow’s (Dakota war chief) scalp fetched $500, a huge sum in 1863.
The movement to change racist mascot names is 45 years old. Most schools have complied and not all Native reference are pejorative.
Isn’t it amazing what you don’t learn in school?