As Atlanta and Houston battle for the World Series title, we revisit the ongoing efforts to by professional sports teams to hang on to names and images that denigrate Native people and culture. We’ll hear the Native side of the history and legacy of the Santa Fe Trail.Īfter a three game stretch in Atlanta during Major League Baseball’s premiere event, audiences worldwide will have witnessed multiple examples of the objectionable ‘tomahawk chop’ and a chant borne from ill-informed Native stereotypes. Although it’s mainly a story of displacement and violence, the full history is richer and more nuanced. Army soldiers across established Native land has been told from a non-Native perspective. For most of that time the narrative of the influential route that took scores of settlers and U.S. The start of the Santa Fe Trail turns 200 this year. Monday, Novem– The legacy of the Santa Fe Trail
