{"id":300,"date":"2016-05-28T14:50:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T21:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/?p=300"},"modified":"2016-06-04T09:10:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T16:10:35","slug":"two-spirit-washington-r-word-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Two-Spirit & the Washington R-word Name"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After conducting a telephone survey of 504 self-identified Native Americans*, a Washington Post survey earlier this month concluded that 9 in 10 (of 90%) Native Americans said they are not offended<\/strong> <\/span>by the Washington R-word name. The poll claims that it \u201c…shows how few ordinary Indians have been persuaded by a national movement to change the football team\u2019s moniker.\u201d<\/p>\n

(*Editor\u2019s note: The Washington Post May 19th story uses the descriptor of \u201cIndian\u201d<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

In response to Washington Post survey and story, Vincent Schilling, an enrolled member of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, wrote in a recent article for Indian Country Today Media Network<\/a> that he questioned the accuracy of the poll and later tweeted with the hashtag #IAmNativeIWasNotAsked.<\/p>\n

Schilling told the Two-Spirit Journal<\/a>, “I don\u2019t believe the Washington Post poll is an accurate reflection of Indian country and the Native Two-Spirit community. Although I am not Two-Spirit and cannot comment on behalf of my Two-Spirit brothers and sisters, I can say that I feel that the Redskins name is disparaging due to the fact it promotes a one dimensional perspective of what a Native American person is.\u201d<\/p>\n

“In my career of approximately 12 years as a journalist, book author, speaker, writer and now as Arts and Entertainment, Sports and Pow Wow\u2019s editor for Indian Country Today Media Network, I am constantly hearing the voices in Indian Country, so the finding of this survey didn\u2019t sound right to me,” said Schilling.<\/p>\n

Schilling launched a Twitter Poll<\/a> that asked the question \u201cJust Curious \u2013 If You are a\u00a0 Native person: Are You Offended by the @Redskins?\u00a0 The Twitter poll, which lasted seven days received 1,299 votes and 79% of voters said they were offended, while 21% said they were not.”<\/p>\n

After a myriad of inquiries on social media, Schilling then decided to create a separate survey which was identical to the Washington Post survey: located here: (https:\/\/t.co\/bhV2aAKjNs<\/a>). <\/strong>This survey is now open and accepting responses\u00a0and\u00a0mirrors the same 9 questions of Washington Post\u2019s survey, for Native people to weigh-in on this discussion.<\/p>\n

In the Indian Country Today Media Network article<\/a> Schilling wrote, \u201cI know this is not \u2018scientific,\u2019 or acceptable standards for a national poll, but a simple Twitter poll I created Thursday<\/span> evening at 11:59 pm<\/span> eastern daylight-saving time \u00a0generated 200 responses in just a few hours. As of Friday<\/span> afternoon, 83% of those people say they are offended by the Redskins name.<\/p>\n

Schilling offers a call to action, \u201cIf you have an opinion, please share so others may vote!\u201d<\/p>\n

The final results will be published by Schilling in an upcoming Indian Country Today\u00a0article \u2013 Follow him on Twitter for updates at\u00a0www.twitter.com\/vinceschilling<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After conducting a telephone survey of 504 self-identified Native Americans*, a Washington Post survey earlier this month concluded that 9 in 10 (of 90%) Native Americans said they are not offended by the Washington R-word name. The poll claims that it “…shows how few ordinary Indians have been persuaded by a national movement to change …Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-health","category-identity","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}