Detroit Free Press longtime columnist Mick McCabe has seen them all in the last half century. The best of the best in Michigan high school sports during that time. Detroit Free Press
Aaron Payment is tired of talking about scalps. About nicknames, mascots and logos. About the exploitation of Native American history.
For 40 years — beginning as a teenager — Payment has fought against mainstream portrayals of his ancestors, while also trying to showcase Native American culture as a strong, healthy community still striving in society, rather than as characters — or caricatures — from a history book.