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The Chiefs will be in the Super Bowl. Native people will also be there to protest their name.

Nevada Public Radio | By Yvette Fernandez
Published February 13, 2024 at 2:30 PM MST
A billboard calling for a name change and an end to the Kansas City Chiefs "chop" stands along Interstate 70 in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Rhonda LeValdo and dozens of other Indigenous activists from Kansas City and around the country are gathering this weekend in Las Vegas ahead of Sunday’s game to demand that the Kansas City Chiefs change their name, the fan-driven “tomahawk chop” and retire “any and all Native American appropriation owned and used by the team,” according to a statement by Not In Our Honor, the group LeValdo founded and leads.
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A billboard calling for a name change and an end to the Kansas City Chiefs "chop" stands along Interstate 70 in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Rhonda LeValdo and dozens of other Indigenous activists from Kansas City and around the country are gathering this weekend in Las Vegas ahead of Sunday’s game to demand that the Kansas City Chiefs change their name, the fan-driven “tomahawk chop” and retire “any and all Native American appropriation owned and used by the team,” according to a statement by Not In Our Honor, the group LeValdo founded and leads.

There are sports teams around the country who have Native American mascots or names, or use Native motifs and symbols. For decades, many groups have been fighting to remove these names and images.

There are sports teams around the country who have Native American mascots or names, or use Native motifs and symbols. For decades, many groups have been fighting to remove these names and images.

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