Why Atlanta shouldn't be the home of the Braves

This season, the baseball team formerly known as the Cleveland Indians started using a new name – the Guardians – adding to the list of high school, college and professional sports teams that have shed a Native American moniker.

But one Major League Baseball team has refused to rebrand: the Atlanta Braves. Political scientist Peter Dreier tells the story of a team that arrived in Atlanta in the 1960s determined to bind itself to the city’s rich legacy of civil rights – and yet simultaneously spent years perpetuating stereotypes against Native Americans.

Will the growing chorus of opposition – which includes players, journalists, Native American leaders and fans – eventually drown out the team’s infamous ‘tomahawk chop’ chant?

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