"Have You Ever Seen A Real Indian?".More people in this country can identify with the Cleveland Indians' mascot--Chief Wahoo--than a real Native American such as Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord, writes columnist Rick Telander Rick Telander is a sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. Hired in 1995 from Sports Illustrated where he was a Senior Editor, Telander's presence at the newspaper was expected to counter the stable of sports columnist the rival Chicago Tribune had. in the May 7 Chicago Sun-Times This article is about the Chicago newspaper. For the Canadian newspaper, see Owen Sound Sun Times. The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago. . "The wildly grinning, fire-engine-red-faced, befeathered, moronic-looking, bobble-headed Chief Wahoo ... is so much a part of our culture that he is almost comforting." Alvord, associate dean of student and minority affairs at Dartmouth Medical School Dartmouth Medical School is the medical school of Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire. The school is closely affiliated with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in neighboring Lebanon, New Hampshire. , and a Navajo, appears in a new ad sponsored by the American Indian College Fund. The ad asks "Have You Ever Seen A Real Indian?" Telander writes that the Native Americans who appear in these ads ... "send the message that being objectified as a people for someone else's pleasure is a daily, demeaning de·mean 1 tr.v. de·meaned, de·mean·ing, de·means To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner: demeaned themselves well in class. experience." |
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