Louis reliever Ryan Helsley.īut when some Braves fans grumbled about the move, and even went so far as to claim it put a hex on the team that resulted in the Cardinals scoring 10 first-inning runs and ending Atlanta’s season, the suits in the front office quickly put the brakes on any tentative steps to drown out the chant. The team did not distribute red foam tomahawks before the decisive Game 5 of their NL Division Series “out of respect for the concerns” expressed by St.
The Cleveland Indians followed suit, changing their name to the Guardians heading into 2022.Įven the Braves, not known for being as socially progressive as Atlanta’s other sports franchises, seemed to be moving in the right direction during the 2019 playoffs when a rival pitcher, who happened to be a member of the Cherokee Nation, called the tomahawk chant insulting.
Much of the sports world has heeded this message, if somewhat begrudgingly.Īfter insisting for years that it would not alter a nickname that is literally deemed offensive in the dictionary, Washington’s NFL team finally dropped its racist moniker. “We have repeatedly and unequivocally made our position clear - Native people are not mascots, and degrading rituals like the tomahawk chop that dehumanize and harm us have no place in American society,” said Fawn Sharp, president of the National Congress of American Indians. No matter how many people attempt to stand in the way, as they always do when society makes a jarring but inevitable lurch forward, there’s no turning back now.
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