For Native American activists, the Kansas City Chiefs have it all wrong


By AGENCY

The Kansas City Chiefs, LeValdo's hometown team and the focus of her protest, won the Super Bowl on Sunday. However, Levaldo is renewing her call for the team to change its name and ditch its logo and game-time rituals that she and other activists say are offensive. Photo: AP

Rhonda LeValdo is exhausted, but she’s refusing to slow down. For the fourth time in five years, her hometown team and the focus of her decades-long activism against the use of Native American imagery and references in sports is in the Super Bowl.

As the Kansas City Chiefs prepared for Sunday's big game (the Chiefs beat San Francisco 49ers in overtime for second straight NFL title), so did LeValdo. She and dozens of other Indigenous activists were in Las Vegas to protest and demand the team change its name and ditch its logo and rituals they say are offensive.

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