Cleveland ‘Indians’ controversy

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The Cleveland Indians will be allowed to use their full team name and logo while playing the Blue Jays in Toronto.

For more than 100 years Cleveland’s baseball team has been named the Indians and for half of that time its logo has gone unchanged. Chief Wahoo has been the team mascot since 1951, back when Residential schools in Canada were still operational. Today, Indigenous activist Douglas Cardinal, a Residential school survivor took Major League Baseball to court in hopes of blocking that mascot and nickname from millions of viewers.

Cardinal’s lawyer, Michael Swinwood who isn’t involved in the proceedings, says Aboriginals have been the David to corporate society’s Goliath for too long. “Goliath is actually imposing a paradigm on David and David has to come back and stand up to it.”

MLB’s team of lawyers argued that there’s nothing offensive about the nickname ‘Indian’ and equated it the Montreal Canadians and Vancouver Canucks. Rogers, who’s broadcasting the game in Canada, says the only solution would be to blackout the game across the country. Regardless of the decision, Swinwood thinks the lawsuit has people talking