For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain.

With the snow piling up outside, the warm dry cabin hidden in its fold of the mountain felt like a safe haven indeed, though it had not been such for the people who had lived there. Soldiers had found them and made the cabin trailhead to a path of exile, loss, and death. But for a while that night, it was a place that held within its walls no pain nor even a vague memory collection of pain.

This was the greatest football team that was ever put together.

The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts.

Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.

You can't have all chiefs, you've got to have Indians too