And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: From: Robert Eurich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Another article from the Washington post (4/7/99) on the recent Reds**** trademark decision. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/redskins/daily/april99/07/tradem ark7.htm <clipped excerpt> Taking Team Names to Court The Redskins case is the leading edge of a wave of Native American efforts to eliminate Indian-themed sports team names through creative legal methods. A challenge to the Atlanta Braves' trademark by the Native American Resource Academy, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based group, is pending before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Trademark Trial and Appeals Board, said board spokeswoman Brigid Quinn. In Cleveland, the National Coalition on Racism in Sports plans to file a racial discrimination suit next week challenging the Cleveland Indians' name and mascot, said Vernon Bellecourt, the group's president. The plaintiffs are likely to use a new theory, first broached in a Harvard Law Review article this year, that the baseball team's "Chief Wahoo" mascot and related paraphernalia effectively exclude Native Americans and deny them full use of the team and sports arena. More than 600 high school and college teams, including Stanford University and the Dallas public schools, have scrapped Indian-themed names, and many of the more than 2,500 institutions that still use such mascots are under pressure to follow suit. The U.S. Justice Department recently investigated whether a North Carolina high school was creating a "racially hostile environment" by using Indian names for its teams. Last month, the investigation was closed after the Buncombe County school board agreed to drop "squaws" for Erwin High School's girls teams. "At some point, there aren't going to be any Indian team names anymore," said Nell Jessup Newton, dean of the University of Denver law school, who studies constitutional rights and Indian law. "That's social change . . . and I think it's good." <end excerpt> -- American Indian Sports Team Mascots http://www.geocities.com/~earnestman/1indexpage.htm "Little drops of rain wear away the greatest of stones." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New hobbies? New curiosities? New enthusiasms? http://www.ONElist.com Sign up for a new e-mail list today! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ You are on the anti racism list to sub/unsub go to: http://www.onelist.com/isregistered.cgi?userinfo &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
