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Contrary to the views of sentimentalists, a people long conditioned to satirical, hard-edged personal names like Stumbling Bear , who have suffered for five centuries the misnomer Indians and who once merrily referred to whites as Long Noses and Palefaces , are hardly likely to be mortified by Redskinsor devastated by Braves . Although currently considered the most glaring of all Indian team names, Redskins actually predates its New World usage by some twenty-five centuries or so.
Are tribal team names (such as Braves, Redskins, Seminoles , etc.) truly demeaning to red Americans?
Thus the '80s saw "the Fun Bunch" (four Washington Redskins receivers) choreographing a leaping High-Five quartet.
For the price--$800 million--that the Washington Redskins brought over the weekend, you could, notes the paper, buy a space shuttle flight, or Avis or Rolls-Royce.
Power Washington is miffed that Snyder doesn't think it is important, but D.C. folks still crave an invitation to sit in his Redskins owner's box.