Indianapolis Indians will keep name, partner with local tribe
INDIANAPOLIS – Sitting in a suite high above Victory Field, Indianapolis Indians chairman and CEO Bruce Schumacher talked about the two years leading to the decision he was about to reveal to IndyStar.
"As we prepare Victory Field for today's game, the Indianapolis Indians wish to acknowledge the Miami, Potawatomi, Shawnee, Delaware, Peoria and Kickapoo peoples, on whose ancestral homelands this field was built," the land acknowledgement statement given to IndyStar reads."We honor these grounds and all indigenous people, who continue to reside in Indiana, and celebrate their resilience and strengths.
Schumacher began talking with Buchanan in September and invited the chief and some of his council members to an Indians game. "Everyone agreed this organization has done everything that's supposed to be done when you are going down this path and they've been so respectful in every aspect," Buchanan said."Contacting us, that was the first thing that was major. And being able to listen and not have closed ears and eyes shut."
"They made it seem like they were very interested in what I had to say," Castoreno told IndyStar on Wednesday evening."I told them the overwhelming response from indigenous people who live in this state is they do not want that name."
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