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Report: Native American groups plan protest of Chiefs name, tomahawk chop at Super Bowl

Native American groups will reportedly protest the Kansas City Chiefs’ name and the tomahawk chop at the Super Bowl on Sunday, according to the Associated Press.

The Florida Indigenous Rights and Environmental Equality group plans to protest prior to Sunday’s game. The protest will include singing and signs. The group’s co-founder, Alicia Norris, called the tomahawk chop “extremely disrespectful,” according to the AP.

“Now the team wants to backtrack and say we are being culturally appropriate and we are being respectful of indigenous people by saying no headdresses," she said.