{"id":2015301,"date":"2023-08-29T11:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T15:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/native-american-group-advocating-to-change-washington-commanders-name-pushes-back-against-fake-group-claims\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T11:06:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T15:06:14","slug":"native-american-group-advocating-to-change-washington-commanders-name-pushes-back-against-fake-group-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/native-american-group-advocating-to-change-washington-commanders-name-pushes-back-against-fake-group-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Native American group fights against &#8216;fake group&#8217; accusations while advocating for Washington Commanders&#8217; name change."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnative-american-group-advocating-to-change-washington-commanders-name-pushes-back-against-fake-group-claims%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2015301&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Fight to \u200cRestore the Washington Commanders&#8217; Previous Name<\/h2>\n<p>The Native American group advocating for the Washington \u200cCommanders to \u200drevert to their previous\u2062 name has vehemently denied accusations\u200b of being &#8220;fake.&#8221; The \u200cgroup&#8217;s president, Eunice Davidson, \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-brown-why-the-left-cannot-successfully-reproduce-over-the-generations\/\" title=\"Michael Brown: Why the Left Cannot Successfully Reproduce Over the Generations\">proudly identifies<\/a> \u2063themselves as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/native-american-group-advocating-to-change-washington-commanders-name-pushes-back-against-fake-group-claims\/\" title=\"Native American group fights against 'fake group' accusations while advocating for Washington Commanders' name change.\">tribal-enrolled \u2062members<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This denial comes \u2062in response to a \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-staff-told-us-he-misspoke-joe-biden-confuses-his-agenda-in-60-minutes-interview-so-his-staff-steps-in-to-correct-the-record-video\/\" title=\"\"Biden's Staff Told Us He Misspoke\" - Joe Biden Confuses His Agenda in 60 Minutes Interview so His Staff Steps in to Correct the Record (VIDEO)\">text message<\/a> sent by Matthew Laux, \u2063a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/100-year-old-veteran-who-raised-millions-walking-for-health-workers-dies-of-covid-19\/\" title=\"100-Year-Old Veteran Who Raised Millions Walking For Health Workers Dies Of COVID-19\">sales manager<\/a> for the Commanders, who claimed that\u200b the group was\u200b not genuine.\u200b Laux\u2063 was\u2062 discussing a petition\u200b created by the Native American Guardians\u200d Association (NAGA), urging the team to \u2063reclaim its former\u2063 title, the Washington Redskins, a\u200c name\u2063 they\u2064 abandoned in 2020.<\/p>\n<h3>Standing Strong Against Accusations<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re\u2063 not a\u200d fake group,&#8221; stated Davidson in an\u200b interview. &#8220;We&#8217;re tribal-enrolled members from tribes across the United States.&#8221;\u2063 Davidson also\u2062 expressed \u200dthat the movement to change the team&#8217;s name was driven by &#8220;racist white woke&#8221; college professors \u200band \u200dthat the \u200dgroup has faced accusations of being \u2063&#8221;fake&#8221; in the past.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They never tell\u2063 our\u2064 story,\u200d and that\u2019s their goal,&#8221; Davidson continued. &#8220;To wipe out Native history. It\u2019s\u2063 discrimination \u200dwhen\u2062 you go after one\u2063 culture\u2062 like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite \u2062the skepticism\u2062 from the \u200bCommanders&#8217;\u200d sales manager,\u2064 it is \u2062important \u200bto note that his personal\u2064 opinion does\u200c not \u200dreflect \u2062the organization&#8217;s stance. A spokesperson for the Commanders clarified\u200b that Laux does not \u200cspeak\u2062 on\u2064 behalf of \u2063the team.<\/p>\n<h3>A Growing Movement<\/h3>\n<p>The NAGA&#8217;s \u200bpetition, posted online \u200cin June, has garnered over\u2063 128,000 signatures as of Tuesday morning. Once it \u2063reaches its next milestone of\u200d 150,000 signatures, \u200cit will become one \u200bof the most signed \u200bpetitions on\u200b Change.org.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to pressure the Commanders, NAGA has\u2064 threatened a\u200c boycott similar to\u2063 the one faced by Anheuser-Busch. The beer company reported a significant loss of \u2064nearly $400\u2064 million in\u200c the \u200dsecond\u200c quarter \u200bof this year, \u200cwhich many attribute to\u200b a boycott following a partnership with \u2064transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney.<\/p>\n<p>NAGA&#8217;s letter, signed\u2062 by Davidson, highlights a poll revealing that 90% of Native Americans do not find\u200c the Redskins name offensive.\u2063 The\u200d group also points out that other\u200b sports teams, such as \u200dthe Kansas City Chiefs and Chicago Blackhawks, have retained their Native American-inspired names while acknowledging\u2062 the importance of honoring and\u200c respecting Native culture.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Earvin &#8220;Magic&#8221; Johnson, one of \u2062the Commanders&#8217; co-owners,\u200d hinted at the possibility of another name change for the team, potentially taking effect\u200b as early as next year. This development follows billionaire Josh Harris&#8217; acquisition of the Washington Commanders for over $6 billion earlier this \u2064year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON\u2064 EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Native American group, pushing for the Washington Commanders to reclaim their old name, refutes allegations of being &#8220;fake.&#8221; The group&#8217;s president asserts they are genuine &#8220;tribal-enrolled members.&#8221; This denial follows accusations by Matthew Laux, a sales manager for the Commanders, who labeled the group as fraudulent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2015302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}