On Friday, June 6, 1997 at 6 pm, there will be a demonstration
outside Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts to protest the continued use by
the Cleveland baseball team of an offensive team name ("Indians") and racist
mascot and logo (Chief Wahoo). The Cleveland baseball team will be playing
the Boston Red Sox on that evening. Protest participants will meet at
Yawkey Way.
For several years, Indigenous people throughout North
America have been conducting a campaign of protest and education to try and
stop the use of racist team names, logos and mascots by professional and
amateur sports teams. Teams such as the Cleveland "Indians," the Atlanta
"Braves," and the Washington "Redskins" trivialize and demean Native people
and culture with their use of the "tomahawk chop," hideous hook-nosed
"Indian" mascots such as "Chief Wahoo," etc.
The protest is being called by United American Indians of New
England (617-773-0406, e-mail: uaine19@idt.net) and the National Peoples
Campaign (617-522-6626). All Native people and non-Native supporters are
welcome.
We are not vanishing. We are not conquered. We are as strong as ever. UAINE