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Tomahawk chop, the Glossary

The tomahawk chop is a sports celebration most popularly used by fans of the American Florida State Seminoles, Atlanta Braves baseball team, the Kansas City Chiefs American football team, and the English Exeter Chiefs rugby union team.^[1]

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American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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American Indian Movement

The American Indian Movement (AIM) is an American Indian grassroots movement which was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in July 1968, initially centered in urban areas in order to address systemic issues of poverty, discrimination, and police brutality against American Indians.

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Arabian riff

"Arabian riff", also known as "The Streets of Cairo", "The Poor Little Country Maid", and "the snake charmer song", is a well-known melody, published in different forms in the 19th century.

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Archery

Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.

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Artificial crowd noise

Artificial crowd noise is pre-recorded audio that simulates the live sounds of spectators, particularly during sporting events.

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Atlanta Braves

The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball team based in the Atlanta metropolitan area.

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Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium

Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium, often referred to as Fulton County Stadium and originally named Atlanta Stadium, was a multi-purpose stadium located in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Behind closed doors (sport)

The term "behind closed doors" is used in several sports to describe matches played where spectators are not allowed in the stadium or venue to watch.

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Carolyn Rose King

Carolyn Rose King (born 1970) is a musician known for being the stadium organist for the Atlanta Braves, the first African American stadium organist in major league history.

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Cherokee Nation

The Cherokee Nation (Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ Tsalagihi Ayeli or ᏣᎳᎩᏰᎵ Tsalagiyehli), formerly known as the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is the largest of three federally recognized tribes of Cherokees in the United States.

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Christian Slater

Christian Michael Leonard Slater (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor.

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Cleveland Guardians

The Cleveland Guardians are an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland.

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Clyde Bellecourt

Clyde Howard Bellecourt (May 8, 1936 – January 11, 2022) was a Native American civil rights organizer.

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Deion Sanders

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Dumnonii

The Dumnonii or Dumnones were a British tribe who inhabited Dumnonia, the area now known as Cornwall and Devon (and some areas of present-day Dorset and Somerset) in the further parts of the South West peninsula of Britain, from at least the Iron Age up to the early Saxon period.

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Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Ann Warren (née Herring; born June 22, 1949) is an American politician and former law professor who is the senior United States senator from Massachusetts, serving since 2013. Tomahawk chop and Elizabeth Warren are native American-related controversies.

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Exeter Chiefs

Exeter Chiefs (officially Exeter Rugby Club) is an English professional rugby union club based in Exeter, Devon. Tomahawk chop and Exeter Chiefs are native American cultural appropriation.

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Florida State Seminoles

The Florida State Seminoles are the athletic teams representing Florida State University located in Tallahassee, Florida. Tomahawk chop and Florida State Seminoles are Florida State University.

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Florida State University

Florida State University (FSU or, more commonly, Florida State) is a public research university in Tallahassee, Florida, United States.

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Foam hand

A foam hand, commonly known as a foam finger, is a sports paraphernalia item worn on the hand to show support for a particular team.

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Foam rubber

Foam rubber (also known as cellular rubber, sponge rubber, or expanded rubber) refers to rubber that has been manufactured with a foaming agent to create an air-filled matrix structure.

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Fox News

The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City.

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Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome

The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome (commonly called the Metrodome) was a domed sports stadium located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Kansas City Chiefs

The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.

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Marching Chiefs

The Florida State University Marching Chiefs is the official marching band of Florida State University. Tomahawk chop and marching Chiefs are Florida State University.

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Marty Schottenheimer

Martin Edward Schottenheimer (September 23, 1943 – February 8, 2021) was an American football linebacker and coach who served as a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) for 21 seasons.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Mel Brooks

Melvin James Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, and playwright.

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National Congress of American Indians

The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is an American Indian and Alaska Native rights organization. It was founded in 1944 to represent the tribes and resist U.S. federal government pressure for termination of tribal rights and assimilation of their people. These were in contradiction of their treaty rights and status as sovereign entities.

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Native American mascot controversy

Since the 1960s, the issue of Native American and First Nations names and images being used by sports teams as mascots has been the subject of increasing public controversy in the United States and Canada. Tomahawk chop and Native American mascot controversy are Atlanta Braves, Kansas City Chiefs, major League Baseball controversies, native American cultural appropriation and native American-related controversies.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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Northwest Missouri State University

Northwest Missouri State University (NW Missouri) is a public university in Maryville, Missouri, United States.

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Oriental riff

The Oriental riff, also known as the East Asian riff and the Chinaman lick, is a musical riff or phrase that has often been used in Western culture as a trope to represent the idea of East or Southeast Asia.

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Premiership Rugby

Premiership Rugby, officially known as Gallagher Premiership Rugby, or the Gallagher Premiership for sponsorship reasons, is an English professional rugby union competition, consisting of 10 clubs, and is the top division of the English rugby union system.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomahawk_chop

Also known as Foam tomahawk.

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See also

American football culture

Atlanta Braves

College sports culture in the United States

Exeter Chiefs

Kansas City Chiefs

Native American cultural appropriation

Sports culture in the United States

References