Sentence examples for Redskin from inspiring English sources

But even if you wanted to offend said American Indian, you probably wouldn't call him a redskin (unless you wanted to imply that he was a mediocre American-football player).The word today is not so much an epithet, as detractors claim, or a salute, as supporters claim, as it is, well, just the name of a sports team.

Opponents of the name like to say that you wouldn't call an American Indian a redskin.

Coupled with evidence from a number of dictionaries positing "redskin" to be an offensive term over these years, the majority shows that the disparagement was evident both within and outside the Native American community.How does the dissenter counter these claims?

That is, if every Native American on the continent were to take offense at the term "redskin" today, that would not matter a whit.

Outside of sports, the word redskin had come to be associated with an era in which American Indians suffered a great deal at the hands of white settlers.

Most of the reactions to the words were negative, with some referring to Thanksgiving as "a slaughter", and most saying the term redskin was racist.

In the last 10 or 15 years, one begins to see in dictionaries the — in some dictionaries the labeling of the term redskin as sometimes offensive.

Child, though a Californian, is a Paleface; David, though the granddaughter of a viscount, was a Redskin.

It was a wide-open pick, as the ex-Redskin had perfect underneath positioning against a route that Mario Manningham, much to the surprise of Eli Manning, broke off.

If he can't, ex-Redskin Chris Horton or talented-but-high-risk undrafted free agent Will Hill could get a look.

Spurrier said he might move training camp back to Redskin Park in the Washington suburbs next season.