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I honestly don't care. I'm liberal and I like watching it from the sideline because it all seems like one big joke to me. I'm neutral because I think the same argument can be made for the American flag. It was being carried when the U.S. Cav came rolling through our homeland burning crops and killing women and children. It was being flown over our place of internment and it was being flown over the boarding schools that were beating children for speaking Navajo. It's a flag. It can symbolize what ever you want it to symbolize. It can stand for oppression and it can stand for freedom. But in the end. It's a piece of cloth.

Edit: For clarification, the heritage argument is BS. I do not condone the flag being flown over the state capitol.

Yes. But the way people have adapted them into mainstream culture is really off. They are human beings who like mischief and misery and I don't really like talking about what they do because it's taboo and you'll think I'm a nutcase haha.

In my opinion, it should go. The mascot does not represent my tribe but for the sake of others who are affected by its imagery. A lot of Navajos don't mind but I think the more progressive, younger generation, like myself, care. It's kind like of our cry out to the world that we are still here.

Tribes in our immediate area such as the Apache bands, Hopi, Tewa, and a host of other Pueblos are very good. There's a lot of inter-tribal marrying and a lot of our cultures cross. We acknowledge the separateness but when one tribe is getting screwed by a foreign entity we usually come together.

American Indian or Indigenous. Anyone born in America is Native to America.