There's a lot of ho-humming going on involving the professional football team in Washington and their team name. Recently, The Washington Post published a piece about how 90 percent of the Native Americans they polled weren't offended by the phrase "redskin". There's plenty to debate about the cruddy way of the Post conducing that, but let's hop in the Way Back machine to when Miami University had Redskins as their mascot. (1972)
When you put our Indian dancer in context with his peers -- a grotesque, prancing, Bowling Green Falcon and Ohio's silly "male and female bobcats" -- it is hard to see how a dignified portrayal of Indian culture is possible.