The Supreme Court of the United States refused to hear an appeal of the Washington federal appeals court decision that ruled that the Native American appellants had waited too long to claim that the Redskins trademark was racist. This decision is expected to allow the Redskins to retain trademark protection for their team name.
Smithsonian Linguist Emeritus Ives Goddard spent several months researching the term “redskins”
The Boston NFL team was renamed Redskins in 1933 to honor its new head coach, Lone Star Dietz. Dietz’s central role in this controversy has brought his heritage to come under much scrutiny decades after his death.
Author Tom Benjey spent several years researching and documenting the details of football’s most colorful coach, William Henry Lone Star Dietz. Lone Star Dietz’s life story is told in Keep A-goin’: the life of Lone Star Dietz and summarized in Doctors, Lawyers, Indian Chiefs: Jim Thorpe & Pop Warner’s Carlisle Indian School Football Immortals Tackle Socialites, Bootleggers, Students, Moguls, Prejudice, The Government, Tooth Decay and Rum. Both books have won awards and received positive reviews.
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