This comes amid a movement to remove Native American imagery from sports. The Atlanta Braves are one win away from potentially securing their fourth World Series title, but their name and a gesture ...

Pressure is mounting for the Super Bowl-bound Kansas City Chiefs to abandon a popular tradition in which fans break into a “war chant” while making a chopping hand motion designed to mimic the Native ...

ATLANTA (AP) — The haunting chants will be impossible to ignore now that the World Series has shifted to Atlanta. Get ready to step back in time — in a most unfortunate way. While a good chunk of the ...

(AP) The manager of the Atlanta Braves sees it as a harmless way to fire up his team. A spokesman for the Navajo Nation’s president says it’s a display of such profound ignorance, it’s hard to be ...

The famous war chant and corresponding tomahawk chop came much later. They were created by the Florida State University "Marching Chiefs" band and football student section in 1984. Baseball's Braves ...

The Toledo School District will no longer use its mascot costume, nor the “Tomahawk Chop” cheer, after the Cowlitz Indian Tribe recently weighed in to call both “offensive” examples of “cultural ...