Shelf Life

The recent announcement that Cleveland’s professional baseball team would remove the controversial Chief Wahoo logo from its uniforms has, for now, renewed the national debate over American Indian mascots in sports. In this episode, we speak with Julie Pelletier, Acting Director of the McNickle Center for American Indian Studies at the Newberry and a member of the Maliseet and Mi'kmaq tribes, about how American Indian mascots both reflect and promote deep-seated cultural ideas and why pro-Chief Wahoo tweets can be revealing. --- (Intro music: "Two Types of Awakenings" by Nheap)