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  • • The Empathy that Brought the Iroquois and Irish Together as One
    Each morning, Lyle Thompson jogs around his home in the Six Nations reserve south of Toronto. Four laps around his property equal a mile. He mixes up his routine with sprints and longer runs. Next, he stretches and lifts kettlebells. Finally, he grabs his lacrosse stick and fires on a goal in his yard for up to an hour, sometimes longer. Home-cooked meals with lots of vegetables are in. Fast foods...2020
  • • Randall Blackdeer Is Bringing Back an Ancient Lacrosse Tradition
    Randall Blackdeer Is Bringing Back an Ancient Lacrosse Tradition Randall Nąątisak Blackdeer helped reintroduce an age-old custom to his community. In a way many people don’t realize, 2014 was a momentous year for lacrosse. Beyond the Final Four, Miles Thompson going pro, and the World Lacrosse Championship, it was the year that many Native Americans in the Midwest began to revive the art of [̷...2020
  • • Randy Staats Reflects on the Creator's Game
    BOSTON - Upon the game's inception, the Native Americans who first played lacrosse said it is so meaningful, it has the ability to heal those who pla... - MLL Boston Cannons...2020
  • • Native American Heritage: Six Questions You Always Wanted to Ask
    As part of our coverage of Native American Heritage Month, we asked some Native thought leaders in the lacrosse community to offer their perspectives on some tough questions that a lot of people wonder about but rarely ask. Justin Giles, a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, played lacrosse at Virginia. He serves on the US Lacrosse Native American Advisory Council and was featured in US Lacros...2020
  • Washington Football Team ends relationship with Daniel Snyder's charitable foundation for Native Americans
    • Washington Football Team ends relationship with Daniel Snyder's charitable foundation for Native Americans
    The Washington Football Team says it will no longer make contributions to Original Americans Foundation, which was founded by Daniel Snyder in 2014.        ...2020
  • • Andrew Lee's Presentation on American Indians Today, History
    DiversityAndrew Lee, vice chair of the US Lacrosse Board of Directors and chair of the US Lacrosse Native American Advisory Council, shared a presentation on American Indians with the US Lacrosse staff last week. Lee, who is half Seneca, played lacrosse collegiately at Hamilton College – and continues to play and coach the game – and has been an active advocate for American Indian advancement. He ...2020
  • • Sankofa Clinician Patrick Timothee Grateful for Opportunities
    AdministratorsDiversityPlayersPrograms & GrantsPatrick Timothee is a former collegiate midfielder at Coker University and was a four-sport athlete (lacrosse, basketball, football, and track) in high school. He remains active in lacrosse as a clinician for the US Lacrosse Sankofa Clinic Series, and as a high school and club coach in South Florida. Tell us about your background?  I was born and ...2020
  • • Dan Snyder: Washington Football Team may be our permanent name
    When Dan Snyder changed the name of his team from an offensive slur against Native Americans to the “Washington Football Team,” it was widely viewed as just a placeholder until a permanent team name could be implemented for the 2021 season and beyond. Maybe not. Snyder told Andrew Beaton of the Wall Street Journal that [more]...2020
  • • Chiefs ban headdresses, face paint depicting Native Americans
    The Kansas City Chiefs have no plans to change their nickname, but they have announced some new game-day policies after consulting with Native American leaders....2020
  • • Chiefs ban fans wearing headdresses
    Although they’re not taking any steps as significant as the Washington Football Team changing its name, the Kansas City Chiefs have also agreed to make some changes after consulting with Native American leaders. The Chiefs announced today that they will ban fans from wearing headdresses or face paint that is designed to mimic Native Americans. [more]...2020

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  • • Scott Marr Has Albany on Doorstep of First Final Four — Again
    This article appears in the May/June edition of US Lacrosse Magazine. Don’t get the mag? Join US Lacrosse today to start your subscription. T hree days after this season of enormous expectations had taken its first wrong turn — after Albany had brought its bruised but unbeaten top-ranked team to UMBC on April 6 and limped out of Baltimore tasting a stunning 11-7 loss to the 3-7 Retrievers — the Gr...2018
  • • Mike Freeman's 10-Point Stance: Playoff Picture Is Starting to Come into Focus
    2016
  • • Colin Kaepernick Praises Fidel Castro's Education Policy, Comments on Malcolm X
    2016
  • • Richard Sherman Criticizes NFL's Celebration, Personal-Conduct Policies
    2016
  • • Book Excerpt: Daniel Snyder and the Unreal Power of NFL Owners
    2015
  • • Mike Freeman's 10-Point Stance: The Scouts Were Dead Wrong on Bridgewater
    2015
  • • Mike Freeman's 10-Point Stance: Will Knighton's Weight Keep Him from Greatness?
    2015

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  • • The Empathy that Brought the Iroquois and Irish Together as One
    Each morning, Lyle Thompson jogs around his home in the Six Nations reserve south of Toronto. Four laps around his property equal a mile. He mixes up his routine with sprints and longer runs. Next, he stretches and lifts kettlebells. Finally, he grabs his lacrosse stick and fires on a goal in his yard for up to an hour, sometimes longer. Home-cooked meals with lots of vegetables are in. Fast foods...2020
  • • Native American Heritage: Six Questions You Always Wanted to Ask
    As part of our coverage of Native American Heritage Month, we asked some Native thought leaders in the lacrosse community to offer their perspectives on some tough questions that a lot of people wonder about but rarely ask. Justin Giles, a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, played lacrosse at Virginia. He serves on the US Lacrosse Native American Advisory Council and was featured in US Lacros...2020
  • • Sankofa Clinician Patrick Timothee Grateful for Opportunities
    AdministratorsDiversityPlayersPrograms & GrantsPatrick Timothee is a former collegiate midfielder at Coker University and was a four-sport athlete (lacrosse, basketball, football, and track) in high school. He remains active in lacrosse as a clinician for the US Lacrosse Sankofa Clinic Series, and as a high school and club coach in South Florida. Tell us about your background?  I was born and ...2020
  • • No Medicine Games During the Pandemic
    My black referee bag sits shoved into a dark corner of my closet with everything jumbled inside. Yellow penalty flags crinkled from their last toss. A scorecard filled out in pencil. An upside-down referee hat. Above the bag, my black-and-white striped referee shirts hang side by side. Throughout the year, they move in a steady stream from me to my washing machine to my dryer and back to me. It is...2020
  • • Scott Marr Has Albany on Doorstep of First Final Four — Again
    This article appears in the May/June edition of US Lacrosse Magazine. Don’t get the mag? Join US Lacrosse today to start your subscription. T hree days after this season of enormous expectations had taken its first wrong turn — after Albany had brought its bruised but unbeaten top-ranked team to UMBC on April 6 and limped out of Baltimore tasting a stunning 11-7 loss to the 3-7 Retrievers — the Gr...2018
  • Appeals court vacates decisions that canceled Redskins trademark registrations
    • Appeals court vacates decisions that canceled Redskins trademark registrations
    Washington wins case, but Native Americans note court still finds team nickname disparaging         ...2018
  • • Why Virginia's Zed Williams Chose a Different Path
    W hen Zed Williams thinks about reaching Memorial Day weekend for the first time in his career, he immediately considers a conversation he’s had with his brothers. It’s not just the Virginia star and his teammates who would be making the trip to Foxborough in May. It truly would be a family affair for Williams’ four older brothers, Jon, JoJo, Zach and "Cornbread", and one younger brother, Sherman....2017
  • • Why Virginia's Zed Williams Chose a Different Path
    W hen Zed Williams thinks about reaching Memorial Day weekend for the first time in his career, he immediately considers a conversation he’s had with his brothers. It’s not just the Virginia star and his teammates who would be making the trip to Foxborough in May. It truly would be a family affair for Williams’ four older brothers, Jon, JoJo, Zach and "Cornbread", and one younger brother, Sherman....2017
  • • Mike Freeman's 10-Point Stance: Playoff Picture Is Starting to Come into Focus
    2016
  • • Redskins, rock band battle government in trademark fight
    WASHINGTON (AP) Simon Tam has openly criticized the Washington Redskins team name as a racist slur that demeans Native Americans....2016

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  • • The Empathy that Brought the Iroquois and Irish Together as One
    Each morning, Lyle Thompson jogs around his home in the Six Nations reserve south of Toronto. Four laps around his property equal a mile. He mixes up his routine with sprints and longer runs. Next, he stretches and lifts kettlebells. Finally, he grabs his lacrosse stick and fires on a goal in his yard for up to an hour, sometimes longer. Home-cooked meals with lots of vegetables are in. Fast foods...2020
  • • Scott Marr Has Albany on Doorstep of First Final Four — Again
    This article appears in the May/June edition of US Lacrosse Magazine. Don’t get the mag? Join US Lacrosse today to start your subscription. T hree days after this season of enormous expectations had taken its first wrong turn — after Albany had brought its bruised but unbeaten top-ranked team to UMBC on April 6 and limped out of Baltimore tasting a stunning 11-7 loss to the 3-7 Retrievers — the Gr...2018

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  • • The Empathy that Brought the Iroquois and Irish Together as One
    2020
  • • Native American Heritage: Six Questions You Always Wanted to Ask
    2020
  • • Sankofa Clinician Patrick Timothee Grateful for Opportunities
    2020
  • • Sankofa Clinician Imani West Paving the Way for Others
    AdministratorsCoachesDiversityPlayersImani West is a former NCAA Division I goalie and now serves as a clinician for the US Lacrosse Sankofa Clinic Series. She has a passion for helping to introduce lacrosse to more young players of color, especially girls. She wants to help them understand that there is a place for them in the game. Tell us about your background? My hometown is Maplewood, N.J., a...2020
  • • A Candid Reflection on Race from Virginia Coach Lars Tiffany
    Truth, justice, equality. Our nation’s founders and charter documents clearly state the values the United States of America, and its citizens, will pursue and realize. Starting with the Declaration of Independence and continuing through modern times, we have such poetic, theoretical purity of opportunity-for-all and democracy found in the words from our government. But why do such past and current...2020
  • • No Medicine Games During the Pandemic
    2020
  • • Isaiah Skidders: Who I Play For
    This article, as told to Matt Hamilton, appears in the April edition of US Lacrosse Magazine, which includes a special 10-page section featuring faces and voices of the Native American lacrosse community. Don’t get the mag? Join US Lacrosse today to start your subscription. I grew up on the Mohawk reservation and got into lacrosse as soon as I could walk. Around the reservation, everywhere you go,...2019
  • • Kyrie Irving does not celebrate Thanksgiving: 'F— Thanksgiving'
    Kyrie Irving said something on Wednesday night that might earn him more headlines than his whole “Earth is flat” assertion. Irving’s Boston Celtics lost 117-109 to the New York Knicks on Wednesday night. In the locker room after the game, someone wished Irving Happy Thanksgiving. According to multiple reporters, Irving responded by saying “f— Thanksgiving” and declaring that he does not celebrate ...2018
  • • Scott Marr Has Albany on Doorstep of First Final Four — Again
    2018
  • • Maryland school banning Redskins gear
    A school in Maryland has instituted a policy that will ban students and faculty from wearing Washington Redskins gear because they believe the team’s nickname is offensive.Bethesda Beat’s Bethany Rodgers reported on Monday that Green Acres School, a private school in Bethesda that runs up to eighth grade, implemented the policy a few days ago. The school’s president sent out a letter to all the sc...2017

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  • • 9 in 10 Native Americans OK with Redskins name
    9 in 10 Native Americans OK with Redskins name...2016
  • • Jeb Bush Says He Doesn't Find Washington Redskins' Nickname Offensive
    2015
  • • Chiefs ban fans wearing headdresses
    2020
  • • Judge affirms cancellation of Redskins trademark
    Ruling says team name of Washington's NFL franchise may be disparaging to Native Americans...2015
  • • Poll finds large majority of Native Americans are OK with “Redskins”
    A poll of Native Americans found that the vast majority do not object to the Washington NFL team’s name. The Washington Post commissioned a poll with a randomly selected national sample of 504 Native American adults. That poll asked, “The professional football team in Washington calls itself the Washington Redskins. As a Native American, do…...2016
  • • Mike Freeman's 10-Point Stance: Will Knighton's Weight Keep Him from Greatness?
    2015
  • • Washington Post Poll Finds Redskins Name Doesn't Offend 9 in 10 Native Americans
    2016
  • • British Parliament Members Write Letter to Roger Goodell Regarding Redskins Name
    2016
  • • Judge orders cancellation of Redskins trademark registration
    A federal judge has ordered the Patent and Trademark Office to cancel registration of the Washington Redskins' trademark, ruling that the team name may be disparaging to Native Americans....2015
  • • Poll: 9 in 10 Native Americans OK with 'Redskins'
    Survey also found that seven of 10 respondents did not find word itself offensive....2016
  • • Native Americans ask NFL to step in on Redskins
    Several Native American leaders and organizations sent a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday calling for the league to force Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder to change the team name immediately....2020
  • • Mike Freeman's 10-Point Stance: The Scouts Were Dead Wrong on Bridgewater
    2015
  • • Book Excerpt: Daniel Snyder and the Unreal Power of NFL Owners
    2015
  • • Federal judge upholds cancellation of Washington’s trademark rights
    Usually, the wheels of justice move slowly. Sometimes, they don’t. Only 15 days after a hearing in federal court regarding the 2014 decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that the Washington trademarks are disparaging to Native Americans, a federal judge has agreed. Via Ian Shapira of the Washington Post, Judge Gerald Bruce Lee affirmed…...2015

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  • • The Empathy that Brought the Iroquois and Irish Together as One
    2020
  • • Scott Marr Has Albany on Doorstep of First Final Four — Again
    2018
  • • Mike Freeman's 10-Point Stance: Playoff Picture Is Starting to Come into Focus
    2016
  • • British Parliament Members Write Letter to Roger Goodell Regarding Redskins Name
    2016
  • • British politicians object to Redskins name ahead of visit
    The Washington Redskins are scheduled to face the Cincinnati Bengals in London’s Webley Stadium next fall as part of the NFL’s International Series. But two members of British Parliament have objected to the league sending a team with a name that bears with it an “exportation of this racial slur to the UK.” Ruth Smeeth and Ian Austin, members of British Labour Party, wrote a letter to NFL commissi...2016
  • • Mike Freeman's 10-Point Stance: The Scouts Were Dead Wrong on Bridgewater
    2015
  • • Mike Freeman's 10-Point Stance: Will Knighton's Weight Keep Him from Greatness?
    2015

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  • • Sponsor input may drive NFL reaction to Washington scandal
    After decades of complaints by Native Americans regarding the name of the Washington franchise, the spark for change came not from a desire to do the right thing but to placate sponsors. Given the new allegations of sexual harassment by 15 former female employees of the team, the sponsors once again take center stage. What [more]...2020
  • • Death of Washington's Chief Zee Offers Chance for NFL to Correct Long-Held Wrong
    2016
  • • Washington Post Poll Finds Redskins Name Doesn't Offend 9 in 10 Native Americans
    2016
  • • Mike Freeman's 10-Point Stance: The Scouts Were Dead Wrong on Bridgewater
    2015

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