With the White House hosting the Braves in honor of their 2021 World Series victory, the topic of the team’s name and controversial “tomahawk chop” was raised while press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre fielded questions from a pool of reporters. When asked about her and president Joe Biden’s stance on the topic, Jean-Pierre deferred to Native Americans’ views on the matter while calling the conversation around the subject “important.”
“We believe that it’s important to have this conversation, and Native American and indigenous voices, they should be at the center of this conversation,” Jean-Pierre said. “That is something that the president believes, that is something that this administration believes.