David Wilkins & Carter Meland

Exalted in grade-school lore as the great coming together of Native peoples and Pilgrim settlers, Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday. It's the time when we as a nation gathered to appreciate and share what we have—food, fellowship, and football.
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November 24, 2012
Use of American Indian characters and imagery by sports teams is an issue we've discussed quite a lot here—but today we have news of an unusual side skirmish in the war against the...
In a major college football clash, quarterback Tyler Bray , Citizen Potawatomi Nation, leads the 3-1 Tennessee Volunteers into Athens, Georgia to face the number 5 ranked Georgia B...
The third game wasn't the charm for Sam Bradford , Cherokee...
Sam Bradford , Cherokee, looks to take his considerably hot hand to Soldier Field to battle the Chicago Bears. Bradford and his St...
After a solid rookie season in which Sam Bradford, Cherokee , posted a 76.5 passer rating for the St. Louis Rams in 2010, there was a lot of hope in Indian country and in St...
Dwanna L. Robertson

With football and the fall season—which is always tough for Native folks because of the U.S.’s insistence on honoring Columbus, the awful Pocahontas Halloween costumes, and the ever-present Thanksgiving mythology of the goodness of the pilgrims and the simple-mindedness of Indigenous people—fast...

September 17, 2012
It's six-years and counting for the legal battle between American Indian petitioners and the Washington Redskins...
William H. “Lone Star” Dietz, who was recently inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, passed away 48 years ago...

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