MORE EVIDENCE (Get my point???)
But what are the issues for Native Americans today? Several of the most prominent are:
(1) "Legal" attempts to rescind or restrict tribal sovereignty rights.
(2) Misuse of Native American religious symbols, such as the eagle feather.
(3) Misuse of Native American likenesses, regalia, and titles as sports or educational "mascots," by schools, colleges, baseball and football teams.
(4) Continued incarceration of Native American political prisoners and AIM activists, when clemency or new trials are clearly called for.
(5) Misuse of Native American religion by so-called New Age spiritualists and "shamans."
(6) Failure of national Civil Rights organizations, or national initiatives such as the President's Commission on Race, to include Native American concerns, members, or input.
(7) Failure of other minorities, such as African Americans who are popular sports figures, to speak out against the abuse of American Indians by big-monied sports interests. Such minorities would not sit by silently if it were their own people who were stereotyped in this way, for example, if there were teams called the "Cleveland Black Bucks," "Washington Darkies," etc.
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