Theresa McCarthy always roots for the Buffalo Bills, but this week her rooting interest is about more than football.
She is interim chair of the University at Buffalo’s new department of Indigenous studies. And she is astonished that fans of the Kansas City Chiefs still perform the so-called tomahawk chop.
“I’d like to see them try it in Haudenosaunee territory,” she says. “They would meet a lot of resistance.”
The Haudenosaunee (hoe-dee-no-SHOW-nee) Confederacy is made up of six Native nations. McCarthy is a member of the Onondaga Nation, a Beaver clan citizen of Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, in Ontario.