Jan 30, 2018 · A smiling little Wahoo face signaled a win, a sad one a loss, a wet one a rainout. I grew up staring in the morning at a sad Wahoo more often than a happy one.

Feb 8, 2018 · At the end of January, the Cleveland Indians announced that their mascot, Chief Wahoo, will no longer appear on players’ jerseys beginning with the 2019 Major League Baseball season. Since the 1970s, activists have opposed the mascot, arguing it is offensive, discriminatory and harmful to Native Americans.

Apr 6, 2018 · To some fans, it is a sad occasion to witness the departure of the Chief. He is seen simply as the most identifying factor of the Cleveland franchise rather than a racist caricature long past his prime.

Jun 19, 2014 · Chief Wahoo, in the battleground state of Ohio, still splits friends and family across all sorts of boundaries. Why? Because people disagree about what Wahoo really means. In baseball, meaning comes down to history, whether it is numbers in a box score or stories shared over pretzels and beer.

Jan 30, 2018 · It's OK to be sad about losing Chief Wahoo, but how the Indians play matters far more: Brent Larkin CLEVELAND -- My first Indians memory is from Game 4 of the 1954 World Series.

Nov 4, 2016 · It's difficult to disentangle Chief Wahoo from the fan identity at large. If you do, it's a conscious choice. Disentangling takes effort and is often really sad.

Chief Wahoo was a logo used by the Cleveland Indians (now the Cleveland Guardians), a Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise based in Cleveland, Ohio. As part of the larger Native American mascot controversy , the logo drew criticism from Native Americans, social scientists, and religious and educational groups, but was popular among fans of the ...

Oct 9, 2018 · The Indians, facing elimination in yesterday’s ALDS game against the Astros, wore Chief Wahoo one last time before going down in defeat. With Wahoo being retired next season, yesterday’s season-ending loss means we have probably seen …

Teters has called Chief Wahoo a "blatant racist caricature" that "honors neither Indian or non-Indian people". [52] Work by Edgar Heap of Birds that appeared on a billboard near the Cleveland Indians' ballpark. The Chief Wahoo image was featured in a 2012 Ohio Historical Society exhibit called Controversy 2: Pieces We Don't Talk About.

Jan 30, 2018 · It could be dead of winter, snow covering the grass, slush in the streets, the sky as gray as sadness, and I’d see Wahoo and everything would warm up for a moment. Look there’s Chief Wahoo.