Three days after Cleveland’s baseball team changed its name from Indians to Guardians, after decades of protests about the sports world’s use of Native American imagery, the Kansas City Chiefs said on Monday that the team was retiring its mascot, a horse named Warpaint. “We just feel like it’s time to retire Warpaint,” said Mark Donovan, the organization’s president. “A lot of reasons for that, but we just feel like it’s the right thing to do. team in Kansas City, Mo., will remain the Chiefs, however, like baseball’s Atlanta Braves and the Chicago Blackhawks of the N.H.L., which have said they have no plans to change their names. The Cleveland team had decided to make a switch in December, though it announced the new name just last Friday.

Source: New York Times July 27, 2021 02:23 UTC