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I didn’t notice that, and neither did any other native people I know or native activist groups I’m in touch with. Maybe it’s because, since every weekend during football and baseball seasons we see the near-equivalent of Klan rallies in terms of the level of insult done to native people when sports teams and fans think of Indians as mascots no different than animals, this seemed downright mild by comparison. After all, the reading didn’t insult and mock native religions like the ‘tomahawk chop’ the Atlanta ‘Braves’ use or the ‘Dancing Illini’ of the University of Illinois does, and it didn’t present a racist cartoon caricature of natives like the Cleveland ‘Indians’, or use outright vicious and hateful epithets like the Washington ‘Redskins.’ But based on what you say, it does seem a strange and misguided way to show diversity. Perhaps they meant to make it clear what the Founding Fathers really thought about natives and not gloss it over like so many do. But why then, didn’t they have someone black read about the Three Fifths Compromise in the Constitution, or a woman read the parts that repeatedly refer to the rights of men alone?

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