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The practice of deriving sports team names, imagery, and mascots from Indigenous peoples of North America is a significant phenomenon in the United States and Canada. The popularity of stereotypical representations of American Indians in global culture has led to a number of teams in Europe also adopting team names derived from Native Americans.
Berlin High School, Berlin, Wisconsin – In 2015, 92% of the community and 90% of the students voted to keep the name. [145] Billerica Memorial High School, Billerica, Massachusetts. Biloxi High School, Biloxi, Mississippi. Bismarck High School, Bismarck, Missouri. Bridgeport High School, Bridgeport, West Virginia.
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Many American sports team names and mascots are based upon or use religious symbolism. The majority are scholastic teams at institutions founded by various denominations of Christianity, both Catholic and Protestant. Saints is the most popular of these names not only at religious schools but public schools.
Texas-Tyler Patriots. Texas A&M Aggies. Texas A&M–Central Texas Warriors. Texas A&M–Commerce Lions. Texas A&M–Corpus Christi Islanders. Texas A&M–Galveston Sea Aggies. Texas A&M International Dustdevils. Texas A&M–Kingsville Javelinas. Texas A&M–San Antonio Jaguars.
The following is a list of sports/games, divided by category. According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 indigenous sports and sporting games . [ 1 ]
Commenting on the proliferation of such team names, New York Times sportswriter Alan Schwarz called Utah "the state where sports fans go to get their Z's." [1] Local television stations KJZZ-TV (which was owned by Larry H. Miller from 1993 until his estate sold the station in 2016) and KPNZ also played off the Jazz's name to end their calls ...
Pekin High School (Pekin, Illinois) Chinks, now the "Dragons". Quebec Nordiques – ( WHA 1972–1979, NHL 1979–1995) San Antonio Black Indians – (Negro league baseball team) Sonoma State University Cossacks, now the Seawolves. Washington Redskins ( National Football League) – Washington, D.C., USA, now the Commanders.