1972 “Trivial as it may seem to other Americans who have been conditioned to excuse their own language and to interpret it for their own convenience, ‘Redskins’ is, indeed, as much as epithet as ‘kike’ ‘nigger’ or ‘honkey.’ We are supposed to be beyond such matters in this country.” – A Chicago Writer

1972 May 6, The Daily Journal 

1972 Jan 20, The Daily Times News 

Indian Movement 
Studies Attack Against Braves 
1972 Jan 19, The Des Moines Register 
      Atlanta, Ga – The national coordinator of the new American Indian Movement says the group may file suit against the Atlanta Braves to keep the baseball team from using an Indian as a mascot and symbol.
      “I believe within the next four months some action will be taken against Atlanta,” said Russell Means, Sioux.
      The symbol of the Braves is a grinning Indian who has a lone feather stuck in his headband.
      Means’ group has already filed a $9 million suit against the Cleveland Indains and their mascot symbol, Chief Wahoo.
      Means said he doesn’t like the idea of the Braves using an Indian named Noc-A-Homa as a mascot. The chief actually is Levi Walker, Jr, half Chippewa and half Ottawa.
      “I understand that every time a home run is hit he comes out of his tepee and does a dance,” said Means, whose information was accurate.
Atlanta Germans?
      “What is it was the Atlanta Germans and after every home run a German dressed in a military uniform began hitting a Jew on the head with a baseball bat?” he asked.
      “Or what if it were the Cleveland Negroes and a black man came trotting out of a shanty in centerfield and did a soft shoe?”
      “Well, the Indian is tired of this label that depicts him to the larger segment of American society as something to be laughed at and not taken seriously and therefore not due respect,” he added…..

1972 Jan 19, The Des Moines Register