@Ong: various groups (tribes?) of Native Americans (NA) have been protesting this for decades.

There are a lot of reasons, of varying levels of compelling (to me) that NA are upset about the use of cartoon images of their ancestors as mascots.

It is often the case that a sporting team's mascot is a dangerous beast, e.g. Lions, Bears, Rams, Tigers, etc. and putting a group of humans in that list is problematic.

The appropriation of the imagery of NA people without permission or contract for something that makes as much money as major league sports is problematic. Especially given how legally protective those major leagues are of *their* imagery.

A team's mascot is effectively that sport's version of a rodeo clown, and the depiction of of a homogenized NA clown in a public space is problematic.

The sporting teams that use these mascots are not sports traditionally played by those people.



Again, I'm not saying all those reasons are equally compelling, but it's just a quick overview of some of the reasons NA people have been protesting this. It's not new. It's been a big deal for NA leaders for decades, and they've been lobbying the sporting leagues, and politicians for, again, decades.

If non-NA people are finally listening to them, then that's probably a good thing, even if the woke-ism is not that good.