The Indianapolis Indians announced that it will not change its team name. Instead, they are partnering with a local Native American tribe.
USA TODAY Sports' Bob Nightengale and Steve Gardner provide us with two teams that aren't getting enough love as the 2023 season gears up.The Indianapolis Indians, the Class AAA affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates, announced Wednesday that it will not change its team name and is instead partnering with a local Native American tribe.it was partnering with the Miami Nation of Indians of Indiana.
"That's who we are. We are the Miami Indians of the state of Indiana," Chief of the Miami Nation of Indians of Indiana Brian Buchananin an interview. That's part of our name," Buchanan said."It's about respect, it's about dignity, it's about recognition and the correct way to do it. If you put a drunken Indian out there or one that is looking all cartoonish, that's wrong.
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