Model Cherokee Luker very naked

I wonder why we are comfortable taking the names of some indigenous nations as first names, but not others. People are named Cherokee, Shawnee, Dakota, Cheyenne, Sioux and Seneca, for example, but I don’t know of anyone named Navajo, Seminole or Apache.

And Ho-Chunk is right out.

Personally, I agreed with those who would have renamed the baseball team the Cleveland Caucasians.

I would not have redrawn Chief Wahoo, however. I would have used Mister Moneybags from the Monopoly board.

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Their refreshment stands would feature brie and lattes.

They would dig little canals along the foul lines and bring their relief pitchers in on a miniature Windjammer. Their mascot would be “Karen,” and whenever an ump made a questionable call that he refused to change, she would come out and ask to speak to his manager.

10 thoughts on “Model Cherokee Luker very naked

  1. Who cares about her first name? Cherokee is quite the Luker, isn’t she?

    I mean, she’s drop dead gorgeous. What a body!

  2. In fairness, “Seneca” isn’t what they call themselves. Their real name is “Onödowáʼga”. Some dipshit colonial diplomat who read too much Latin somehow mangled it into “Seneca”.

    1. True enough. I should probably have left Seneca off the list, since Europeans had known of that name for centuries before they arbitrarily decided it was the name of an indigenous group on this continent.

      That makes Seneca the “one of these things is not like the others” in the group I listed, since no Europeans used those other names in pre-Columbian times.

  3. I have always thought that calling the original occupants “Indians” was stupid and should be stopped. The only Indians are those that trace their origins to the country of India. Why we have perpetuated the ignorance of those early explorers is beyond me. Indigenous people or First-nation people are better choices. And I always thought that the Cleveland baseball team should have worn turbans and had a swami as a mascot. Either that or a sacred cow

    1. Aha, you’ve hit on the real problem with the “Cleveland Indians” – the owners should have been totally racist toward a completely different group! I knew there was something wrong with their approach, but I couldn’t put my finger on it.

      1. There are only 2 groups now that it’s ok to ridicule and stereotype. One is old people, like you old farts that hang around here. And the other is the lower rungs on the social economic ladder. It’s still ok to casually denigrate with terms like blue collar, trailer trash, redneck, and others I’m sure you can think of.
        And I was wondering if anyone would catch my subtle irony re the Cleveland suggestion

    2. On the other hand, the indigenous probably didn’t care what some outsiders called them nor did they know about India back then. I thought the idea of calling them Native Americans was kind of stupid since America certainly isn’t what they called it. Naming these people after an Italian doesn’t make sense. I also wouldn’t call the early explorers ignorant, they sailed the seas finding distant lands. Pretty impressive. They just used a name because they were looking for India and it stuck. I don’t think they gave much of a crap what social media would say in the 21st century. I can only imagine the rolled eyes in the future when they look back at our media today. I hope they just have a good laugh.

    3. Since I’ve been working with people who are from India and going to eat at Indian restaurants and so on it’s not just political correctness, after a while it just feels silly to call native people Indians. However, that’s in an urban area with immigrants, going to another part of the state I mentioned getting Indian food and was asked “you mean like maize?”.

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