{"id":607666,"date":"2021-07-31T17:21:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T21:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=607666"},"modified":"2021-07-31T17:21:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T21:21:08","slug":"kansas-city-chiefs-retire-warpaint-mascot-team-vows-to-keep-creating-opportunities-to-educate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kansas-city-chiefs-retire-warpaint-mascot-team-vows-to-keep-creating-opportunities-to-educate\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Chiefs \u2018Retire\u2019 Warpaint Mascot, Team Vows To Keep Creating \u2018Opportunities To Educate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fkansas-city-chiefs-retire-warpaint-mascot-team-vows-to-keep-creating-opportunities-to-educate%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=607666&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/KC-Chiefs-Warpaint.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This week, the Kansas City Chiefs announced that the NFL franchise would no longer showcase a horse mascot named \u201cWarpaint\u201d galloping around the field on game days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe feel like it\u2019s time to retire Warpaint,\u201d said Chiefs president Mark Donovan at training camp on Monday. \u201cA lot of reasons for that, but we feel like it\u2019s the right thing to do. Warpaint won\u2019t be running at Arrowhead (Stadium) anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move came three days after the Major League Baseball team in Cleveland changed its name from the Indians to the Guardians.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.1437125748503\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chiefs President Mark Donovan says Warpaint will no longer run at Arrowhead Stadium.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChiefsKingdom?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ChiefsKingdom<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4C6EJTX9xq\">pic.twitter.com\/4C6EJTX9xq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rob Collins (@RCFOX4KC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RCFOX4KC\/status\/1419710629242359808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Donovan said the Chiefs have no plans to change their name, but would continue collaborating with \u201ca really good American Indian working group that provides us real guidance and feedback and perspective on this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to continue to create opportunities to educate, create awareness and work exactly as we have over the past eight years now with the working group,\u201d Donovan said.<\/p>\n<p>Donovan has previously explained that the Chiefs convened the meetings to \u201chonor, educate and create awareness of American Indian culture for our fans,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs\/article253034403.html\">according<\/a> to The Kansas City Star.<\/p>\n<p>More details from The Star:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"20\">\n<p><em>In policies that derived from those conversations \u2014 which remain ongoing \u2014 the Chiefs announced ahead of the 2020 season that they would bar fans from entering the stadium wearing headdresses or with faces painted in a way that depicts American Indian culture.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In 2014, also a product of discussions with the working group, the Chiefs began inviting Native Americans onto the field for the blessing of a drum, on which a former player or other luminary bangs a mallet to start The Chop before each home game\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Members of the working group that meets with the Chiefs have said they take no issue with the name itself, which is not a racial slur. The Chiefs also do not have a logo with the head of a Native American, like the Washington Redskins once used.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Warpaint tradition began nearly sixty years ago when the team played at Municipal Stadium, which was also home to the Kansas City Athletics baseball team at the time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.6280991735537\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chiefs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Chiefs<\/a> are retiring Warpaint for a second time! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kmbc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@kmbc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z11UdZGDeI\">pic.twitter.com\/Z11UdZGDeI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alan Shope (@AlanKMBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlanKMBC\/status\/1419836312216031270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/sam-mellinger\/article244207462.html\">reported<\/a>, \u201cA Native American named Bob Johnson used to ride Warpaint before games\u2026dressed in a war bonnet, with warpaint on his face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started in 1963, and I went just about 20 years as the only rider,\u201d Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=524714808149886\">told FOX4<\/a> during an interview last year. \u201cI wore out three horses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to FOX4, Johnson said it was Chiefs late owner Lamar Hunt \u201cwho came up with the idea of an Indian, complete with headdress, riding around after every touchdown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The custom continued until 1989 when new blood in the front office decided to replace Warpaint with a mascot called KC Wolf. Warpaint returned twenty years later, in 2009, for the franchise\u2019s 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary. But when the Chiefs re-introduced Warpaint, the horse was ridden by a cheerleader instead of a man donning a traditional Native American headdress.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs appear to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chiefs.com\/cheerleaders\/warpaint\">scrubbed<\/a> a page dedicated to Warpaint from the team\u2019s official website.<\/p>\n<p>IllumiNative is a Native American-led nonprofit that says it \u201cstands with the Black Lives Matter movement to change the institutions of power that drive systemic racism.\u201d The group has <a href=\"https:\/\/illuminatives.org\/change-the-name\/\">called on<\/a> the Chiefs organization \u201cto cease their use of racialized Native American branding by eliminating all imagery of or evocative of Native American culture, traditions, and spirituality from their team franchise by changing their name including the logo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cleveland-indians-officially-change-name-to-cleveland-guardians-debut-new-logo\">Cleveland Indians Officially Change Name To \u2018Cleveland Guardians,\u2019 Debut New Logo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the Kansas City Chiefs announced that the NFL franchise would no longer showcase a horse mascot named \u201cWarpaint\u201d galloping around the field on game days.\u201cWe feel like it\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607666","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=607666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}