FUNTS 44 | Reclaiming Redskins? Special Guests: the Native American Guardians Association

The name of the Washington Redskins, Football Team, or Commanders (whatever you want to call them) has been a hot-button issue for a while now. After retiring the Redskins name and logo in 2020, many fans were up in arms. Now with a new ownership group led by the likes of Josh Harris and Magic Johnson, the organization has not been afraid to use the term Redskins when referring to the team's past. This led to the uprise of a petition with over 75K signatures to unretire the Redskins name and logo at the time of the release of this episode. Why would you want to return to a name that many consider controversial? That's what JackKnife and Zack Danielz want to find out as they brought in members of the Native American Guardians Association, the group leading this charge, as special guests for this episode. The Native American Guardians Association (NAGA) is a group of people, many of them Native American, who don't seek to eradicate symbols of American Indians in American culture, but rather to protect them and educate people on their meanings. Representing NAGA on this episode are mebers Bill Dieckman, a lifelong Redskins fan and Kiowa Indian, and Tony Andrews, a die-hard Redskins fan and social media coordinator for the Association. They sit down with the FUNTS to discuss facts and myths about the Redskins name and logo and what it means to them, what native imagery means to the other American Indian members of this Association, and the importance of educating and not eradicating the meaning of these symbols. NAGA Website: https://www.nagaeducation.org/ Educate Not Eradicate: https://www.educatenoteradicate.org/ Change the Name Petition: https://www.change.org/p/change-the-washington-commanders-back-to-the-washington-redskins-3db47898-920b-4ba3-b608-9ffe3b4a0adf?recruiter=1310830645&recruited_by_id=6cb1a6e0-1064-11ee-bc9e-f75850683395&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_content=cl_sharecopy_36616493_en-US%3Acv_23952 NAGA Linktree: https://linktr.ee/nagaguardians UrinatingTree video: Dan Snyder: A Legacy of Failure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rKMmZgs5FI&ab_channel=UrinatingTree Frank Michael Smith's Redskins short: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O_0In8o-CKo Washington Post Red Mesa video: https://youtu.be/X2_mSyjXeTo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FUNTSpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/funtspodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/funtspodcast/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3ejz1hv... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast.. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/⁠@fatunathleticnerdstalkings1222 ⁠ Arm Chair Racers YoutTube: https://www.youtube.com/⁠ @ArmChairRacersPodcast ⁠