The following is a list of sports team names and mascots derived from ethnic groups of peoples, including generically used terms, those named after specific peoples, and words or iconography derived from different languages or traditions.

There is considerable controversy over these team names and mascots because various American Indians

Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...

 activist groups view them as disrespectful and offensive. Most notably, the National Congress of American Indians

National Congress of American Indians

The National Congress of American Indians is a American Indian and Alaska Native indigenous rights organization. It was founded in 1944 in response to termination and assimilation policies that the U.S. government forced upon the tribal governments in contradiction of their treaty rights and...

 has issued a resolution opposing continued usage of Native team names, mascots and logos. Various tribal entities have also issued resolutions opposing usage, as well. However, not all ethnic team names are derived from Native American imagery, and many names connected to other ethnic groups, such as the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish, are considered inoffensive (by some), and may even be embraced by the ethnic groups they represent.

According to a 2002 Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...

article (Price, S.L. "The Indian Wars", March 4, 2002, pp 66–72), 83% of American Indian respondents to a Sports Illustrated poll said that professional teams should not stop using Indian nicknames, mascots or symbols.

Scholars have challenged the Sports Illustrated findings on multiple grounds. King, et al. (2002) argue (1) the SI poll is problematic because it serves to distract readers from the history and implications of mascots. (2) The survey features problematic sampling and identification issues produce non-representative and un-generalizable findings (for example, Snipp (1992) writes of the difficulty involved in any quantitative research on American Indians in national polling). (3) SI decontextualizes mascots and the controversy about them. (4) The article discussing the poll concludes that mascots are unproblematic merely because a majority of polled Native people say they are, thus discounting the validity of a critical minority. And (5) the consequences for public debate and social justice are ignored by the poll, which treats the issue as critically as SI treats sports injuries or debate over which teams will make the playoffs.

American football

• Bristol Aztecs (British American Football League
  British American Football League
  The British American Football League was the United Kingdom's primary American Football league from 1998 until 2010. It was formerly known as the British Senior League until 2005. BAFL was the trading name for Gridiron Football League Ltd incorporated as a Company limited by guarantee....
  
  )
• Edmonton Eskimos
  Edmonton Eskimos
  The Edmonton Eskimos are a Canadian football team based in Edmonton, Alberta. They currently play in the West Division of the Canadian Football League . Edmonton is currently the third-youngest franchise in the CFL, although there were clubs with the name Edmonton Eskimos as early as 1895...
  
   (CFL
  Canadian Football League
  The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....
  
  )
• Kansas City Chiefs
  Kansas City Chiefs
  The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They are a member of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Originally named the Dallas Texans, the club was founded by Lamar Hunt in 1960 as a...
  
   (NFL)
• Minnesota Vikings
  Minnesota Vikings
  The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings joined the National Football League as an expansion team in 1960...
  
   (NFL)
• Washington Redskins
  Washington Redskins
  The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team and members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team plays at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, while its headquarters and training facility are at Redskin Park in Ashburn,...
  
   (NFL
  National Football League
  The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
  
  ), originally Boston Braves, then Boston Redskins
  • Named after Boston Braves (MLB); changed their name to Redskins when they moved from Braves Field to Fenway Park

Basketball

• Boston Celtics
  Boston Celtics
  The Boston Celtics are a National Basketball Association team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. Founded in 1946, the team is currently owned by Boston Basketball Partners LLC. The Celtics play their home games at the TD Garden, which...
  
   (NBA
  National Basketball Association
  The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...
  
  )
• Golden State Warriors
  Golden State Warriors
  The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in Oakland, California. They are part of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association...
  
   (NBA), although the team has since abandoned Native American imagery. From 1997 to 2010, they utilized a more generalized depiction of a warrior; their main logo now depicts the new eastern span of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge.

Baseball

• Atlanta Braves
  Atlanta Braves
  The Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball club based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. The Braves have played in Turner Field since 1997....
  
   (MLB
  Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
  
  ), originally Boston Braves, then Milwaukee Braves, plus all but one of their minor league
  Minor league baseball
  Minor league baseball is a hierarchy of professional baseball leagues in the Americas that compete at levels below Major League Baseball and provide opportunities for player development. All of the minor leagues are operated as independent businesses...
  
   affiliates:
  • Danville Braves
    Danville Braves
    The Danville Braves are a minor league baseball team in Danville, Virginia, USA. They are an Advanced Rookie-level team in the Appalachian League and have been a farm team of the Atlanta Braves since 1993. The Braves play home games at American Legion Post 325 Field...
    
    
  • Gulf Coast Braves
  • Mississippi Braves
    Mississippi Braves
    The Mississippi Braves, or M-Braves as they are referred to locally, are a minor league baseball team based in Pearl, Mississippi, a suburb of Jackson. The team is the Class AA affiliate of the Atlanta Braves, and plays in the Southern League. The team is owned and operated by Liberty Media, which...
    
    
  • Gwinnett Braves
    Gwinnett Braves
    The Gwinnett Braves are a minor league baseball team in the International League, the Triple-A affiliate of the major league Atlanta Braves. The team was previously the Richmond Braves for 43 seasons . On January 14, 2008, it was announced that the Richmond Braves would move from Richmond,...
    
    
  • Rome Braves
    Rome Braves
    The Rome Braves are a Class-A minor league affiliate of the Atlanta Braves. In 2003, the team, previously known as the Macon Braves, moved from Macon, Georgia, to Rome, Georgia, 60 miles northwest of Atlanta....
    
    
• Cleveland Indians
  Cleveland Indians
  The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , they have played in Progressive Field. The team's spring training facility is in Goodyear, Arizona...
  
   (MLB
  Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
  
  )
• Indianapolis Indians
  Indianapolis Indians
  The Indianapolis Indians are a minor league baseball team based in Indianapolis, Indiana. The team, which plays in the International League, is the Triple-A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates major-league club. The Indians play at Victory Field, located in downtown Indianapolis...
  
  
• Kinston Indians
  Kinston Indians
  The Kinston Indians were a minor league baseball team of the Carolina League , and the High-A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians. They were located in Kinston, North Carolina, and were named for their parent club...
  
  
• Peoria Chiefs
  Peoria Chiefs
  The Peoria Chiefs are a Class A minor league baseball team, affiliated with the Chicago Cubs, from Peoria, Illinois. They play in the Midwest League....
  
  - now uses Firefighting imagery
• Spokane Indians
  Spokane Indians
  The Spokane Indians are a minor league baseball team located in Spokane, Washington, United States. They are a Short-Season A classification team in the Northwest League and have been a farm team of the Texas Rangers since 2003. The Indians play home games at Avista Stadium...
  
  
• Syracuse Chiefs — The team changed its name from "Chiefs" to "SkyChiefs" from 1996–2006, but reverted to "Chiefs" in 2007. Today's Chiefs do not use any imagery related to indigenous peoples, instead using railroad imagery, although the "Super Chief
  Super Chief
  The Super Chief was one of the named passenger trains and the flagship of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. It was often referred to as "The Train of the Stars" because of the many celebrities who traveled on the streamliner between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California.The Super...
  
  " railroad trains were also Indian-inspired.
• Yaquis de Obregón
  Yaquis de Obregón
  The Yaquis de Obregón is a Mexican baseball team of the Liga Mexicana del Pacífico .The team was founded on October 8, 1970, and its home stadium is the Estadio Tomás Oroz Gaytán. They have been champions of the league on five occasions. The first time was at the 1965–1966 season with Manuel...
  
  

Hockey

• Chicago Blackhawks
  Chicago Blackhawks
  The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . They have won four Stanley Cup championships since their founding in 1926, most recently coming in 2009-10...
  
   (NHL
  National Hockey League
  The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
  
  )
• Frölunda Indians
  Frölunda HC
  Frölunda Hockey Club, also known as the Frölunda Indians, are a Swedish professional ice hockey club based in Gothenburg. They are currently playing in the highest Swedish league, Elitserien, where they have played the majority of the seasons during its existence. The last time they played in the...
  
   Elitserien
  Elitserien
  Elitserien, is a professional ice hockey league composed of twelve teams in Sweden...
  
  
• Montreal Canadiens
  Montreal Canadiens
  The Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The club is officially known as ...
  
   (NHL
  National Hockey League
  The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
  
  )
• Spokane Chiefs
  Spokane Chiefs
  The Spokane Chiefs are a major junior ice hockey team that plays in the Western Hockey League based out of Spokane, Washington. The team plays its home games at the Spokane Arena. Their uniforms are similar to those of the NHL's Montreal Canadiens. Spokane consistently ranks in the top 10 in the...
  
  
• Vancouver Canucks
  Vancouver Canucks
  The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver, :British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The Canucks play their home games at Rogers Arena, formerly known as General Motors Place,...
  
   (NHL
  National Hockey League
  The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
  
  )
• Vinnitski Haidamaky (PHL)

Lacrosse

• Brooklin Redmen
  Major Series Lacrosse
  Major Series Lacrosse is a Senior A box lacrosse league based out of Ontario, Canada sanctioned by the Ontario Lacrosse Association. Most of the players in the league play or have played in the National Lacrosse League. Each year, the playoff teams battle for the right to compete against the...
  
   (MSL
  Major Series Lacrosse
  Major Series Lacrosse is a Senior A box lacrosse league based out of Ontario, Canada sanctioned by the Ontario Lacrosse Association. Most of the players in the league play or have played in the National Lacrosse League. Each year, the playoff teams battle for the right to compete against the...
  
  )
• Burlington Chiefs
  Burlington Chiefs
  The Burlington Chiefs are Junior "A" box lacrosse team from Burlington, Ontario, Canada. The Chiefs play in the OLA Junior A Lacrosse League.Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against...
  
  
• Elora Mohawks
  Elora Mohawks
  The Elora Mohawks are Junior "B" box lacrosse team from Elora, Ontario, Canada. The Mohawks play in the OLA Junior B Lacrosse League.Probably founded in the 1960s, the Mohawks started out as the Fergus Thistles. In 1963, the team moved to become the Guelph Mohawks. In 1967 the team moved to...
  
  
• Exeter Chiefs
  Exeter Chiefs
  Exeter Rugby Club are a rugby union club based in Exeter, Devon.The Exeter club was formed around 1871 and played its first match in 1873. The first team has been rebranded as the Exeter Chiefs and play in a strip of Black , White ....
  
  
• Iroquois Nationals
  Iroquois Nationals
  The Iroquois Nationals are the national lacrosse team of the Six Nations of the Iroquois League that competes in international competition. The team was admitted to the International Lacrosse Federation in 1990 and is the only Native American/First Nations team sanctioned to compete in any sport...
  
  , the men's lacrosse
  Lacrosse
  Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
  
   team representing the Iroquois Confederacy
  Iroquois
  The Iroquois , also known as the Haudenosaunee or the "People of the Longhouse", are an association of several tribes of indigenous people of North America...
  
   in international competition
• Six Nations Chiefs
  Major Series Lacrosse
  Major Series Lacrosse is a Senior A box lacrosse league based out of Ontario, Canada sanctioned by the Ontario Lacrosse Association. Most of the players in the league play or have played in the National Lacrosse League. Each year, the playoff teams battle for the right to compete against the...
  
   (MSL
  Major Series Lacrosse
  Major Series Lacrosse is a Senior A box lacrosse league based out of Ontario, Canada sanctioned by the Ontario Lacrosse Association. Most of the players in the league play or have played in the National Lacrosse League. Each year, the playoff teams battle for the right to compete against the...
  
  ), a team representing a First Nations
  First Nations
  First Nations is a term that collectively refers to various Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis. There are currently over 630 recognised First Nations governments or bands spread across Canada, roughly half of which are in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia. The...
  
   reserve
  Six Nations 40, Ontario
  Six Nations is the largest First Nation in Canada with a total of 23,902 band members. 11,865 are reported living in the territory. It is the only territory in North America that has the six Iroquois nations living together. These nations are the Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Seneca and...
  
   in Ontario
  Ontario
  Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
  
   that is home to members of all six Iroquois nations plus a band of the Lenape
  Lenape
  The Lenape are an Algonquian group of Native Americans of the Northeastern Woodlands. They are also called Delaware Indians. As a result of the American Revolutionary War and later Indian removals from the eastern United States, today the main groups live in Canada, where they are enrolled in the...
  
   (aka Delaware) nation
• St. Regis Indians
  Major Series Lacrosse
  Major Series Lacrosse is a Senior A box lacrosse league based out of Ontario, Canada sanctioned by the Ontario Lacrosse Association. Most of the players in the league play or have played in the National Lacrosse League. Each year, the playoff teams battle for the right to compete against the...
  
   (MSL
  Major Series Lacrosse
  Major Series Lacrosse is a Senior A box lacrosse league based out of Ontario, Canada sanctioned by the Ontario Lacrosse Association. Most of the players in the league play or have played in the National Lacrosse League. Each year, the playoff teams battle for the right to compete against the...
  
  ), a team representing a Mohawk
  Mohawk nation
  Mohawk are the most easterly tribe of the Iroquois confederation. They call themselves Kanien'gehaga, people of the place of the flint...
  
   reservation
  St. Regis Mohawk Reservation, New York
  St. Regis Mohawk Reservation is a Mohawk Indian reservation in Franklin County, New York, United States. It is also known by its Mohawk name, Akwesasne. The population was 2,699 at the 2000 census. The reservation is adjacent to the Akwesasne reserve in Ontario and Quebec. The Mohawk consider the...
  
   in New York
• Tomahawks Lacrosse Club

Rugby

• The Chiefs
  Chiefs (Super rugby franchise)
  The Chiefs are a professional Rugby union team based in Hamilton, New Zealand. Their home ground is Waikato Stadium. The Chiefs play in black, red and yellow coloured jerseys...
  
  , a rugby union
  Rugby union
  Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
  
   team representing the central North Island
  North Island
  The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the much less populous South Island by Cook Strait. The island is in area, making it the world's 14th-largest island...
  
   of New Zealand
  New Zealand
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
  
   in the Super 14
  Super 14
  Super Rugby is the largest and pre-eminent professional Rugby union competition in the Southern Hemisphere...
  
   competition
• New Zealand Māori
  New Zealand Maori rugby union team
  New Zealand Māori is a rugby union team that traditionally plays teams touring New Zealand. A prerequisite for playing in this team is that the player is to have Māori whakapapa or genealogy. In the past this rule was not strictly applied. In the past non-Māori players who looked Māori were often...
  
  , a New Zealand
  New Zealand
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
  
   rugby union (and formerly rugby league) side whose members must be at least 1/16 Māori
• Northland Taniwha
  Northland Rugby Union
  The Northland Rugby Football Union is the governing body of rugby union in the Northland region of New Zealand.-History:Rugby was first played in Northland in the 1870s, and the first union was set up in the province in 1895, known as the Marsden Football Union. The Northland union was founded in...
  
  , a rugby team in the ITM Cup named after a being from Māori mythology
  Maori mythology
  Māori mythology and Māori traditions are the two major categories into which the legends of the Māori of New Zealand may usefully be divided...
  
  
• The Tomahawks, the official nickname of the United States national rugby league team
  United States national rugby league team
  -2008 & 2013 Rugby League World Cup Qualifying:In October 2006, The Tomahawks were to participate in a four team Atlantic qualifying pool for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup, but South Africa and the West Indies withdrew. As a result, The Atlantic qualifying pool was reduced to a single game...
  
  
• The England Saxons
  England Saxons
  England Saxons is the current name of England's men's second national rugby union team. The team has previously been known by a number of names, such as England B, Emerging England and, most recently, England A...
  
  , the country's second mens' rugby union
  Rugby union
  Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
  
   XV, formerly known as England A

Schools

• Alcorn State Braves
  Alcorn State University
  Alcorn State University is an historically black university comprehensive land-grant institution in Lorman, Mississippi. It was founded in 1871-History:...
  
  
• Alfred University
  Alfred University
  Alfred University is a small, comprehensive university in the Village of Alfred in Western New York, USA, an hour and a half south of Rochester and two hours southeast of Buffalo. Alfred has an undergraduate population of around 2,000, and approximately 300 graduate students...
  
   Saxons
• Alma College
  Alma College
  Alma College is a private, liberal arts college located in Alma, Michigan. The enrollment is approximately 1,400 students, and the college is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. The college's 13th President, Dr...
  
   Scots
• Aloha Warriors
  Aloha High School
  -Demographics:*American Indian 2%*Asian or Pacific Islander 12%*Black 6%*Hispanic 23%*White 62%*Multiple Categories Selected 5%-Academics:In 2008 75% of the school's seniors received their high school diploma. Of 517 students 389 graduated, 69 dropped out, 14 received a modified diploma, and 45 are...
  
  
• Arcadia High School
  Arcadia High School (Arcadia, California)
  Arcadia High School is a part of the Arcadia Unified School District and is a four-year comprehensive secondary school located on a site in Arcadia, California. Their motto is"Our Caring Makes a Difference."...
  
   Apaches
• Blytheville High School Chickasaws
• Bethany Swedes
• Bradley Braves
  Bradley University
  Bradley University, founded in 1897, is a private, co-educational university located in Peoria, Illinois. It is a small institution with an enrollment of approximately 6,100 undergraduate and postgraduate students and a full-time faculty of approximately 350....
  
  
• Brebeuf Jesuit Braves
  Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School
  Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School is a private college preparatory school founded by the Jesuits and located on the northwest side of Indianapolis. It is a part of the Chicago Province of the Society of Jesus and geographically located within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis.Brebeuf...
  
  
• Carlow University
  Carlow University
  Carlow University is a Roman Catholic university founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, on September 24, 1929, by the Sisters of Mercy from Carlow, Ireland. Originally called Mount Mercy College, the name was changed to Carlow College in April 1969. In 2004, Carlow College achieved university...
  
   Celtics
• Catawba Indians
  Catawba College
  Catawba College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in Salisbury, North Carolina, USA. Founded in 1851 by the North Carolina Classis of the Reformed Church in Newton, the college adopted its name from its county of origin, Catawba County, before moving to its current home of Salisbury...
  
  
• Central Michigan Chippewas
  Central Michigan University
  Central Michigan University is a public research university located in Mount Pleasant in the U.S. state of Michigan...
  
  
• Chowan Braves
• Cleveland State University
  Cleveland State University
  Cleveland State University is a public university located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. It was established in 1964 when the state of Ohio assumed control of Fenn College, and it absorbed the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1969...
  
   Vikings
• Compton High School Tartars
• Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
  Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
  Edinboro University is a public liberal arts university located in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, USA and one of 14 schools associated with the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. The town is named after Edinburgh, Scotland. It is also not to be confused with the University of Edinburgh...
  
   Fighting Scots
• Fighting Whites
  Fighting Whites
  The Fighting Whites were an intramural basketball team formed at the University of Northern Colorado in 2002 and named in response to the Native American mascot controversy.The intramural college team briefly attracted a storm of national attention because of its satirical protest...
  
  , an intramural team at the University of Northern Colorado
  University of Northern Colorado
  -Organization:The University of Northern Colorado offers 100 undergraduate programs and more than 100 graduate programs. The university has a satellite campus in Denver, Colorado...
  
  
• Flint Central High School
  Flint Central High School
  Flint Central High School was one of the Flint Community Schools, located in Flint, Michigan, USA. Flint Central was the city's oldest school. Its first building was built in 1875, and the school moved into the present building in 1923. It was called Flint High School until Flint Northern High...
  
   Indians
• Florida Southern Moccasins
  Florida Southern College
  Florida Southern College is a private college located in Lakeland, Florida, United States. It was selected by U.S...
  
  ; The school DOES NOT use Native American images, but instead used the mascot of the Moccasin snake.
• Florida State Seminoles
  Florida State Seminoles
  The Florida State Seminoles are the men's and women's sports teams of Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. Florida State participates in the NCAA's Division I . FSU joined the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1991, and competes in the Atlantic Division in any sports split into a...
  
  
• Four Winds Indians Fort Totten, North Dakota
  Fort Totten, North Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 952 people, 230 households, and 200 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 124.2 people per square mile . There were 255 housing units at an average density of 33.3/sq mi . The racial makeup of the CDP was 0.84% White, 0.11% African...
  
  
• Hawaii Rainbow Warriors
  Hawaii Rainbow Warriors
  The University of Hawaii Warriors, University of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors, or University of Hawaii Rainbows are the team names of the men's sports programs at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa....
  
   (men) and Rainbow Wahine (women); "Wahine" is the Hawaiian
  Hawaiian language
  The Hawaiian language is a Polynesian language that takes its name from Hawaii, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed. Hawaiian, along with English, is an official language of the state of Hawaii...
  
   word for "woman"
  • Since 2000, each team has been allowed to select its own mascot name; most notably, the football team has been simply known as "The Warriors"
    Hawaii Warriors football
    The Hawaii Warriors football team represents the University of Hawaii at Mānoa in NCAA Division I FBS college football. The team, which is currently coached by Greg McMackin, is part of the Western Athletic Conference until 2012, when the team joins the Mountain West Conference.The Hawaii Warriors...
    
    . See University of Hawaii Athletics for details.
• Idaho Vandals
  Idaho Vandals
  The Idaho Vandals are the intercollegiate athletic teams of the University of Idaho. They participate in NCAA Division I - FBS in the Western Athletic Conference ....
  
   (indigenous to Central Europe)
• Illinois Fighting Illini
  Illinois Fighting Illini
  The Fighting Illini are the intercollegiate athletic teams of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The University offers 10 men's and 11 women's varsity sports....
  
  
• Hope College
  Hope College
  Hope College is a medium-sized , private, residential liberal arts college located in downtown Holland, Michigan, a few miles from Lake Michigan. It was opened in 1851 as the Pioneer School by Dutch immigrants four years after the community was first settled...
  
   Flying Dutchmen
• Iona Gaels
  Iona College (New York)
  Iona College is located in New Rochelle, New York, 20 miles north of Manhattan in suburban Westchester County. The college occupies 35 acres on North Ave. The college also operates a Graduate Center in Pearl River, Rockland County, New York....
  
  
• Lake View Warriors
• Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, or UL Lafayette, is a coeducational, public research university located in Lafayette, Louisiana, in the heart of Acadiana...
  
  
• Luther College (Iowa)|Luther College Norse a/k/a Norsemen]]
• Lycoming College Warriors
  Lycoming College
  Founded in 1812, Lycoming College is located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. One of the 50 oldest colleges in America, Lycoming enrolls 1400 undergraduate students from over 28 states and 12 foreign countries. Eighty percent of the college's students live on campus...
  
  
• Macalester College
  Macalester College
  Macalester College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was founded in 1874 as a Presbyterian-affiliated but nonsectarian college. Its first class entered September 15, 1885. The college is located on a campus in a historic residential neighborhood...
  
   Fighting Scots
• Macklin Mohawks
  Macklin Mohawks
  The Macklin Mohawks are a minor ice hockey league association that plays out of Macklin, Saskatchewan The Mohawks have age groups starting from prenovice to midgets The Macklin Senior Mohawks also play hockey in Macklin....
  
  
• Manteo (NC High School) Redskins
• Maryville College
  Maryville College
  Maryville College is a private four-year liberal arts college in Maryville, Tennessee, near Knoxville. It was founded in 1819 by Presbyterian minister Isaac L. Anderson for the purpose of furthering education and enlightenment into the West. The College is one of the fifty oldest colleges in the...
  
   Fighting Scots
• McClymonds Warriors
  McClymonds High School
  McClymonds High School is a public high school in the West Oakland neighborhood of Oakland, California, USA.In addition to being the third oldest high school in Oakland, it is the larger of the two high schools in West Oakland , and the only high school in West Oakland operated by the Oakland...
  
  
• Michigan State Spartans
  Michigan State Spartans
  The Michigan State Spartans are the athletic team that represent Michigan State University. The school's athletic program includes 25 varsity sports teams. Their mascot is a Spartan warrior named Sparty, and the school colors are green and white...
  
  
• Mississippi College Choctaws
  Mississippi College
  Mississippi College, also known as MC, is a private, Christian university located in Clinton, Mississippi. Mississippi College comprises the main campus in Clinton, as well as satellite campuses in Brandon and Madison, Mississippi, and the Mississippi College School of Law in Jackson...
  
  
• Monterey
  Monterey, California
  The City of Monterey in Monterey County is located on Monterey Bay along the Pacific coast in Central California. Monterey lies at an elevation of 26 feet above sea level. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 27,810. Monterey is of historical importance because it was the capital of...
  
   YMCA
  YMCA
  The Young Men's Christian Association is a worldwide organization of more than 45 million members from 125 national federations affiliated through the World Alliance of YMCAs...
  
   Tribe
• Morris (Illinois) Community High School Redskins
• McMurry Indians
  McMurry University
  McMurry University, founded in 1923, is a private co-educational university in Abilene, Texas. It is a liberal arts school offering forty-one majors in the fields of fine arts, humanities, social and natural sciences, education, business, and religion, and nine pre-professional programs, including...
  
  
• Newberry Indians
  Newberry College
  Newberry College is a liberal-arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located on a historic campus in Newberry, South Carolina.The college has 1,025 students and a 19:1 student-teacher ratio...
  
  
• NJIT Highlanders
• North Dakota Fighting Sioux
  North Dakota Fighting Sioux
  The North Dakota Fighting Sioux are the athletic teams of the University of North Dakota , which is located in the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota, in the United States. The logo is a Native American figure. The logo was designed by Bennett Brien, a local artist and UND graduate of Ojibwa...
  
  
• Northern Kentucky Norse
  Northern Kentucky University
  |type = Public|president= Dr. James C. Votruba|city = Highland Heights|state = KY|country = U.S.|endowment = $68 million|students = 15,405|undergrad = 13,206|postgrad = 2,199|faculty = 1,159...
  
  
• Notre Dame Fighting Irish
  Notre Dame Fighting Irish
  Notre Dame's nickname is inherited from Irish immigrant soldiers who fought in the Civil War with the Union's Irish Brigade, , recollected among other places in the poetry of Joyce Kilmer who served with one of the Irish Brigade regiments during World War I...
  
   (indigenous to Ireland)
• PBK Rebels
• Port Neches-Groves Indians
• Ridley Raiders (Ridley High School, Ridley Township, PA)
• Portland Winterhawks
• Portland State University
  Portland State University
  Portland State University is a public state urban university located in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1946, it has the largest overall enrollment of any university in the state of Oregon, including undergraduate and graduate students. It is also the only public university in...
  
   Vikings
• Presbyterian College
  Presbyterian College
  Presbyterian College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, South Carolina, USA. Presbyterian College, or PC, is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church USA. PC was founded in 1880 by William Plumer Jacobs, a prominent Presbyterian minister who also founded the nearby Thornwell Home and...
  
   Blue Hose
• Radford Highlanders
  Radford University
  Radford University is one of Virginia's eight doctoral-degree granting public universities. Originally founded in 1910, Radford offers comprehensive curricula for undergraduates in more than 100 fields, and graduate programs including the M.F.A., M.B.A...
  
  
• Saint Mary's College of California
  Saint Mary's College of California
  Saint Mary's College of California is a private, coeducational college located in Moraga, California, United States, a small suburban community about east of Oakland and 20 miles east of San Francisco. It has a 420-acre campus in the Moraga hills. It is affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church...
  
   Gaels
• San Diego State Aztecs
• San Jose State Spartans
  San José State Spartans
  The San Jose State Spartans is the name of the athletic teams representing San Jose State University. SJSU sports teams compete in the Western Athletic Conference at the NCAA Division I level...
  
  
• Scappoose Indians, Scappoose High School, Scappoose, Oregon. Scappoose is the Chinook word for the area, meaning gravely plain.
• Smith Center Redmen, Smith Center, Kansas
  Smith Center, Kansas
  Smith Center is a city in and the county seat of Smith County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,665.-Geography:Smith Center is located at...
  
   High School.
• Susquehanna University Crusaders
  Susquehanna University
  Susquehanna University is a liberal arts college in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, United States, north of the state capital, Harrisburg.-Academics:...
  
  
• Syracuse Orange (previously Syracuse Orangemen
  William III of England
  William III & II was a sovereign Prince of Orange of the House of Orange-Nassau by birth. From 1672 he governed as Stadtholder William III of Orange over Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel of the Dutch Republic. From 1689 he reigned as William III over England and Ireland...
  
  )
• Union College
  Union College
  Union College is a private, non-denominational liberal arts college located in Schenectady, New York, United States. Founded in 1795, it was the first institution of higher learning chartered by the New York State Board of Regents. In the 19th century, it became the "Mother of Fraternities", as...
  
   Dutchmen
• UNC Pembroke Braves
  University of North Carolina at Pembroke
  The University of North Carolina at Pembroke , also known as UNC Pembroke, is a public, co-educational, historically American Indian liberal arts university in the town of Pembroke in Robeson County, North Carolina....
  
  , representing a college originally created to educate American Indians
  Native Americans in the United States
  Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...
  
  
• University of Pennsylvania
  University of Pennsylvania
  The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
  
   Quakers
• University of Southern California Trojans
• UP Fighting Maroons
  UP Fighting Maroons
  The Fighting Maroons is the name of the collegiate men's varsity teams of the University of the Philippines Diliman. The collegiate women's varsity teams are called the Lady Maroons. They compete in all of the sports of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines . The University of the...
  
   of the University of the Philippines
• Utah Utes
  Utah Utes
  The Utah Utes are the athletics teams of the University of Utah. They are named after the Ute tribe of Native Americans. The men's basketball team is known as the "Runnin' Utes"; the women's basketball team, formerly known as the "Lady Utes," now prefers to be referred to as the "Utes"; and the...
  
  
• Verona Hillbillies- (High School in Verona, NJ)
• Warroad Warriors
• West Virginia Mountaineers
  West Virginia Mountaineers
  The West Virginia Mountaineers are the athletic teams of West Virginia University. The school is a member of National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I and the Big East Conference. On July 1, 2012 the Mountaineers will switch conferences, moving from the Big East to the Big 12, becoming...
  
  
• Whitman Missionaries
  Whitman College
  Whitman College is a private, co-educational, non-sectarian, residential undergraduate liberal arts college located in Walla Walla, Washington. Initially founded as a seminary by a territorial legislative charter in 1859, the school became a four year degree granting institution in 1883...
  
   Refers to founding of the area by white missionaries sent to minister to local native peoples
• William & Mary Tribe
  William & Mary Tribe
  The William & Mary Tribe are the athletic teams for the College of William & Mary. The name Tribe now refers to the unity and comradery that William & Mary student-athletes share when competing in the classroom and on the field. William & Mary has transitioned through several official nicknames...
  
   — While still using the nickname "Tribe", the school has abandoned its former use of Native American imagery, most notably a pair of feathers associated with W&M's athletic logo.
• College of Wooster Fighting Scots
• Sherwood High School Bowmen (English)
• Sheridan High School Samurai (Japanese)
• Mount St. Mary's University Athenians (Greek)
• Albion College Britons (British)
• Carlow University Celts (Irish)
• George Washing University Colonials (Americans)
• Robert Morris University Colonials (Americans)
• Southampton College Colonials (Americans)
• Western Connecticut State Colonials (Americans)
• Hamilton College Continentals (Americans)
• Edinboro College Fighting Scots (Scots)
• Gordon College Fighting Scots (Scots)
• Macalester College Fighting Scots (Scots)
• McHenry County College Fighting Scots (Scots)
• Monmouth College Fighting Scots (Scots)
• Ohio Valley Fighting Scots (Scots)
• Wooster Fighting Scots (Scots)
• Iona University Gaels (Irish)
• Saint Mary's College Gaels (Irish)
• Queen's University Gaels (Irish)
• MacMurry College Highlanders (Scots)
• McLennan Community College Highlanders (Scots)
• New Jersey Institute of Technology Highlanders (Scots)
• Radford College (Scots)
• University of California Riverside (Scots)
• Earlham Quakers (Quakers)
• Guilford Quakers (Quakers)
• Penn Quakers (Quakers)
• Hawaii Rainbow Warriors (Hawaiians)
• Alfred University Saxons (Germans/English/French)
• Alma Univesrity Scots (Scots)
• Covenant College Scots (Scots)
• Edinboro College Scots (Scots)
• Lyon College Scots (Scots)
• Macalester Scots (Scots)
• Maryville College Scots (Scots)

Other

• Mississauga Tomahawks
  Mississauga Tomahawks
  The Mississauga Tomahawks are Junior "A" box lacrosse team from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The Tomahawks play in the OLA Junior A Lacrosse League...
  
  
• North Shore Indians
• North Side Tribe

Defunct names

• Adams State Indians
  Adams State College
  Adams State College is a small state-supported liberal arts college in Alamosa, Colorado, U.S., in the San Luis Valley.-History:Adams State was founded in 1921 as a teacher's college but now offers a variety of programs including masters degrees in many fields...
  
  , now the "Grizzlies"
• Akron Indians
  Akron Pros
  The Akron Pros were a professional football team located played in Akron, Ohio from 1908–1926. The team originated in 1908 as a semi-pro team named the Akron Indians, however name was changed to the Pros in 1920 as the team set out to become a charter member of the American Professional...
  
  , defunct National Football League
  National Football League
  The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
  
   team, formerly the "Pros"
• Arkansas State Indians
  Arkansas State Red Wolves
  The Arkansas State University Red Wolves is the name given to Arkansas State University's athletic teams. The university is affiliated with the Sun Belt Conference in sports and maintains NCAA Division I status.-History:...
  
  , now the "Red Wolves"
• Atlanta Black Crackers
  Atlanta Black Crackers
  The Atlanta Black Crackers were a professional Negro league baseball team which played during the early to mid 20th century.- Founding :The Crackers were founded in 1919...
  
   - (Negro League Baseball team)
• Tri-Cities Blackhawks
  Atlanta Hawks
  The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are part of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association .-The first years:...
  
  , of what is now the NBA, moved and renamed St. Louis / Atlanta "Hawks," after the bird
• Canton / Akron Indians, a minor league baseball
  Minor league baseball
  Minor league baseball is a hierarchy of professional baseball leagues in the Americas that compete at levels below Major League Baseball and provide opportunities for player development. All of the minor leagues are operated as independent businesses...
  
   farm team
  Farm team
  In sports, a farm team, farm system, feeder team or nursery club, is generally a team or club whose role is to provide experience and training for young players, with an agreement that any successful players can move on to a higher level at a given point...
  
   for the Cleveland Indians, moved to Akron and became the "Aeros"
• Carlisle Indians
  Carlisle Indian Industrial School
  Carlisle Indian Industrial School was an Indian boarding school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1879 at Carlisle, Pennsylvania by Captain Richard Henry Pratt, the school was the first off-reservation boarding school, and it became a model for Indian boarding schools in other locations...
  
  , a school for American Indians that was a college football power in the early 1900s
• Carthage Redmen
  Carthage College
  Carthage College is a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Situated in Kenosha, Wisconsin midway between Chicago, Illinois and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the campus is on the shore of Lake Michigan and is home to 2,500 full-time and 900 part-time...
  
  , reverted to the "Red Men"
• Cincinnati Cubans
  Cuban Stars (West)
  The Cuban Stars were a team of Cuban professional baseball players that competed in the United States Negro leagues from 1907 to 1932. The team was also sometimes known as the Stars of Cuba, the Cuban All-Stars, the Havana Reds, the Almendares Blues, or simply as the Cubans. For one season, 1921,...
  
   - (Negro League Baseball team)
• Cleveland Indians
  Cleveland Indians (NFL)
  The Cleveland Indians was a professional football team in the National Football League for the 1931 season. The 1931 team was a league-sponsored club that only played games on the road. The NFL intended to locate this team permanently in Cleveland...
  
   of the National Football League, team defunct
• Chowan Braves
  Chowan University
  - Other Notable Former Students :* Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, confessed architect of the September 11 attacks.- External links :* *...
  
  , changed to Hawks in 2006
• Cumberland Indians
  University of the Cumberlands
  University of the Cumberlands is a private, liberal arts college located in Williamsburg, Kentucky, with an enrollment of approximately 3,200 students...
  
  , now the Cumberlands "Patriots"
  • This school was known as Cumberland College until 2005, when it became the University of the Cumberlands. The nickname change came earlier.
• Dartmouth Indians, disused since the 1970s in favor of continuing existing nickname, "Big Green"
• Dickinson State Savages
  Dickinson State University
  Dickinson State University is a four-year public university in Dickinson, North Dakota, United States, and is a part of the North Dakota University System...
  
  , renamed the "Blue Hawks" in 1972
• Eastern Michigan Hurons
  Eastern Michigan University
  Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Ypsilanti is west of Detroit and eight miles east of Ann Arbor. The university was founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School...
  
  , now the "Eagles"
• Eastern Washington Savages
  Eastern Washington University
  Eastern Washington University is an American public, coeducational university located in Cheney, Washington.Founded in 1882, the university is academically divided into four colleges: Arts and Letters; Business and Public Administration; Science, Health and Engineering; and Social & Behavioral...
  
  , now the "Eagles"
• Flint Indians
  Flint Indians
  The Flint Indians were a professional baseball team in Flint, Michigan in 1941. The Indians were a part of the Michigan State League and played their home games at Atwood Stadium. Their overall record was 70-38 and they won the 1941 MSL Championship...
  
  , team defunct
• Grand Forks Central Redskins
  Central High School (Grand Forks, North Dakota)
  Central High School is a public senior high school in the Grand Forks Public Schools district. It is located near the University of North Dakota. It has a main focus on athletics and is regionally renowned in ice hockey, golf and tennis.-Location:...
  
  , renamed the "Knights"
• Grafton Blackhawks
  Grafton High School (Wisconsin)
  Grafton High School is a secondary school in Grafton, Wisconsin. It is part of the Grafton School District. The only public high school in Grafton, it has a student enrollment of around 900.-Academics:...
  
  , renamed to "Black Hawks"
• Hartwick Warriors
  Hartwick College
  Hartwick College is a non-denominational, private, four-year liberal arts and sciences college located in Oneonta, New York, in the United States. The institution was founded as Hartwick Seminary in 1797 through the will of John Christopher Hartwick, and is now known as Hartwick College...
  
  , became the "Hawks" in 1994
• Hermosillo Seris
  Hermosillo Seris
  The Hermosillo Seris was an American Basketball Association team based in Hermosillo, Mexico. The team began play in the fall of 2004 and folded operations in January 2005 because of financial difficulties. The Seris had a 3-6 record at the time they left....
  
  
• Hofstra Flying Dutchmen
  Hofstra University
  Hofstra University is a private, nonsectarian institution of higher learning located in the Village of Hempstead, New York, United States, about east of New York City: less than an hour away by train or car...
  
  , now the "Pride"
• Kansas City Scouts
  Kansas City Scouts
  The Kansas City Scouts was a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League from 1974–76. In 1976, the franchise relocated to Denver, Colorado and became the Colorado Rockies...
  
   of the NHL, moved to Colorado and became the Rockies, now the New Jersey Devils
  New Jersey Devils
  The New Jersey Devils are a professional ice hockey team based in Newark, New Jersey, United States. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Louisiana-Monroe Indians
  University of Louisiana at Monroe
  The University of Louisiana at Monroe is a coeducational public university in Monroe, Louisiana and part of the University of Louisiana System.-History:...
  
  , now the "Warhawks"
• Los Angeles Aztecs
  Los Angeles Aztecs
  The Los Angeles Aztecs were a soccer team that competed in the North American Soccer League from 1974-81. The team was based in Los Angeles, California and part-owned by Elton John.-History:...
  
   (North American Soccer League
  North American Soccer League
  North American Soccer League was a professional soccer league with teams in the United States and Canada that operated from 1968 to 1984.-History:...
  
  )
• Marquette Warriors
  Marquette Golden Eagles
  The Marquette Golden Eagles are the intercollegiate athletic teams of Marquette University....
  
  , became the "Golden Eagles" in 1994
• Massachusetts Redmen
  UMass Minutemen
  The UMass Minutemen are the athletic teams that represent the University of Massachusetts Amherst in NCAA Division I sports competition. The nickname is also applied to club teams that do not participate within the NCAA structure. Strictly speaking, the Minutemen nickname applies to men's teams and...
  
  , became the "Minutemen" in 1972 (According to the University, "Redmen" and "Redwomen" referred to the uniforms worn by the atletics teams. It was changed to "Minutemen" and "Minutewomen" out of sensitivity to American Indians.)
• MCLA Mohawks
  Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
  The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts is a public, residential, liberal arts college that offers both undergraduate and graduate programs. Located in North Adams, Massachusetts, it is part of the state university system of Massachusetts. It is a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts...
  
  , today the "Trailblazers"
• Mexico City Aztecas
  Mexico City Aztecas
  The Mexico City Aztecas team was an experiment by the Continental Basketball Association in fielding a team outside the United States and Canada. It played one season, the 1994-95 season.-History:...
  
  
• Miami Redskins
  Miami RedHawks
  Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio, features 18 different varsity level sports teams for men and women, all of which are known as the Miami RedHawks...
  
  , now the "RedHawks"
• Midwestern State Indians
  Midwestern State University
  Midwestern State University is a public liberal arts college in Wichita Falls, Texas, and a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges...
  
  , latterly the "Mustangs" as of the 2006 season
• Nebraska Wesleyan Plainsmen
  Nebraska Wesleyan University
  Nebraska Wesleyan University is a private, coeducational university located in Lincoln, Nebraska. It was founded in 1887 by Nebraska Methodists. As of 2007, it has 1,600 full-time students and 300 faculty and staff. The school teaches in the tradition of a liberal arts college education....
  
  , today the "Prairie Wolves"
• New York Black Yankees
  New York Black Yankees
  The New York Black Yankees was a professional baseball team based in New York City, Paterson, NJ, and Rochester, NY which played in the Negro National League from 1936 to 1948. The Black Yankees played in Paterson, New Jersey from 1933-1937 and then from 1939-1945. The 1938 season saw the Black...
  
   - (Negro League Baseball team)
• New York Cubans
  New York Cubans
  The New York Cubans were a Negro league baseball team that played during the 1930s and from 1939 to 1950. Despite playing in the Negro leagues, the team occasionally employed white-skinned Hispanic baseball players as well, because Hispanics in general were largely ignored by the major league...
  
   - (Negro League Baseball team)
• Northeastern State University
  Northeastern State University
  Northeastern State University is a public university with its main campus located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, United States, at the foot of the Ozark Mountains. Northeastern's home, Tahlequah, is also the capital of the Cherokee nation of Oklahoma...
  
   (founded as Cherokee National Female Seminary in 1851)|Redmen renamed to RiverHawks in 2006.
• Oklahoma City U. Chiefs
  Oklahoma City University
  Oklahoma City University, often referred to as OCU, is a coeducational, urban, private university historically affiliated with the United Methodist Church...
  
  , now the "Stars"
• Oorang Indians
  Oorang Indians
  The Oorang Indians were a traveling team in the National Football League from LaRue, Ohio . The team was named after the Oorang dog kennels. It was a novelty team put together by the kennels' owner, Walter Lingo, for marketing purposes. All of the players were Native American, with Jim Thorpe as...
  
  , an early NFL entry actually consisting mostly of American Indians
• Parsippany High School Redskins, Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ, now the "Redhawks"
• Pekin High School (Pekin, Illinois) Chinks, now the "Dragons"
• Quinnipiac Braves
  Quinnipiac University
  Quinnipiac University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational university located in Hamden, Connecticut, United States at the foot of Sleeping Giant State Park...
  
  , became the "Bobcats" in 2002
• St. Bonaventure Brown Indians and Brown Squaws
  St. Bonaventure University
  St. Bonaventure University is a private, Franciscan Catholic university, located in Allegany, Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. It has roughly 2,400 undergraduate and graduate students....
  
  , renamed the "Bonnies" in 1979
• St. John's University (New York City)
  St. John's University (New York City)
  St. John's University is a private, Roman Catholic, coeducational university located in New York City, United States. Founded by the Congregation of the Mission in 1870, the school was originally located in the borough of Brooklyn in the neighborhood of Bedford–Stuyvesant...
  
  , formerly the "Redmen," became the "Red Storm" in 1995, to be gender-neutral and to avoid any appearance of racism. The school's website indicates that the name did not refer to American Indians, but to the school color, a bright cardinal red.
• Salisbury Indians
  Salisbury Indians
  The Salisbury Indians were a United States minor league baseball team which played in Salisbury, Maryland. The team began operation in 1922 as a founding member of the Eastern Shore Baseball League, which operated out of cities on the Delmarva Peninsula....
  
  , team defunct
• San Antonio Black Indians - (Negro League Baseball team)
• Simpson Redmen and Lady Reds
  Simpson College
  Simpson College is a four-year, coeducational liberal arts institution situated in Indianola, Iowa, USA, and affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Simpson, which has been fully accredited by North Central Association since 1913, is a small school with approximately 1,400 full-time students...
  
  , renamed the "Storm" in 1992
• Sonoma State University, now the Seawolves
• Southeast Missouri State Indians and Otahkians
  Southeast Missouri State University
  Southeast Missouri State University, is a public, accredited university located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States, near the banks of the Mississippi River. The institution, having started as a normal school, has a traditional strength in teacher education...
  
  , renamed the "Redhawks"
• Southeastern Oklahoma State Savages
  Southeastern Oklahoma State University
  Southeastern Oklahoma State University, often referred to as Southeastern and abbreviated as SE, or SOSU, is a public university located in Durant, Oklahoma, with an undergraduate enrollment of approximately 4,229 as of 2009.-History:...
  
  , renamed "Savage Storm" in 2006
• Southern Colorado Indians, now the ThunderWolves It is currently Colorado State University-Pueblo, The nickname change came earlier.
• Springfield Indians
  Springfield Indians
  The Springfield Indians were a minor professional ice hockey franchise, originally based in West Springfield, Massachusetts and later Springfield, Massachusetts. The Indians were founding members of the American Hockey League. They were in existence for a total of 60 seasons from 1926 to 1994, with...
  
  , moved to Worcester
  Worcester, Massachusetts
  Worcester is a city and the county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Named after Worcester, England, as of the 2010 Census the city's population is 181,045, making it the second largest city in New England after Boston....
  
   and became the IceCats
  Worcester IceCats
  The Worcester IceCats were an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. They played in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA at the Worcester Centrum...
  
  , then Peoria, Illinois
  Peoria, Illinois
  Peoria is the largest city on the Illinois River and the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, in the United States. It is named after the Peoria tribe. As of the 2010 census, the city was the seventh-most populated in Illinois, with a population of 115,007, and is the third-most populated...
  
  , where they are now the Rivermen
  Peoria Rivermen
  The Peoria Rivermen are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. They play in Peoria, Illinois, USA at the Carver Arena.-History:...
  
  
• Seattle U. Chieftains
  Seattle University
  Seattle University is a Jesuit Catholic university located in the First Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, USA.SU is the largest independent university in the Northwest US, with over 7,500 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs within eight schools, and is one of 28 member...
  
  , now the "Redhawks"
• Southern Nazarene Redskins
  Southern Nazarene University
  Southern Nazarene University is a Christian liberal arts college located in Bethany, Oklahoma, United States.-History:The history of the institution is one of various mergers and, therefore, one of differing institutions. While SNU claims its founding date as 1899, that founding date refers to an...
  
  , now the "Crimson Storm"
• Springfield College Chiefs
  Springfield College
  Springfield College is a private, coeducational university located in the City of Springfield, Massachusetts. Springfield College is most famous as the site where the sport of basketball was invented...
  
  , now the "Pride"
• Stanford Indians
  Stanford Cardinal
  The Stanford Cardinal is the nickname of the athletic teams at Stanford University.-Nickname and mascot history:Following its win over Cal in the first-ever Big Game in 1892, the color cardinal was picked as the primary color of Stanford's athletic teams...
  
  , now known as the Stanford "Cardinal" (singular - for the school color, a shade of red)
• Stonehill Chieftains
  Stonehill College
  Stonehill College is a private Roman Catholic college located in Easton, Massachusetts, United States, founded in 1948. Situated in North Easton, Massachusetts, a suburban community of 23,329 people, Stonehill is located south of Boston on a campus, the original estate of Frederick Lothrop Ames...
  
  , today the "Skyhawks"
• Syracuse Orangemen (indigenous to the Netherlands, from William of Orange, and later Ireland, though the name referred to a school color), now just the Orange, to be gender-neutral
• Syracuse Saltine Warriors, changed to the Orangemen, now just the Orange, to be gender-neutral
• Tamalpais Indians
  Tamalpais High School
  Tamalpais High School is a public secondary school located in Mill Valley, California. It is named after nearby Mount Tamalpais, which rises more than above Mill Valley....
  
  , became the Tamalpais High School "Red Tailed Hawks" [sic] after 1990.
• Toronto Tecumseh
  Major Series Lacrosse
  Major Series Lacrosse is a Senior A box lacrosse league based out of Ontario, Canada sanctioned by the Ontario Lacrosse Association. Most of the players in the league play or have played in the National Lacrosse League. Each year, the playoff teams battle for the right to compete against the...
  
   (OALA Sr A
  Major Series Lacrosse
  Major Series Lacrosse is a Senior A box lacrosse league based out of Ontario, Canada sanctioned by the Ontario Lacrosse Association. Most of the players in the league play or have played in the National Lacrosse League. Each year, the playoff teams battle for the right to compete against the...
  
  ), was the "Tecumseh
  Tecumseh
  Tecumseh was a Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy which opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and the War of 1812...
  
  " in the late 19th century and maybe early 20th; changed to "Toronto Young Torontos" by 1911
• Wayne State University
  Wayne State University
  Wayne State University is a public research university located in Detroit, Michigan, United States, in the city's Midtown Cultural Center Historic District. Founded in 1868, WSU consists of 13 schools and colleges offering more than 400 major subject areas to over 32,000 graduate and...
  
  , formerly "the Tartars", now the Warriors

Mascots

• Chief Osceola
  Chief Osceola and Renegade
  Chief Osceola and Renegade are the official symbols of the Florida State University Seminoles. During home football games at Florida State, Chief Osceola, portraying the Seminole leader Osceola, charges down the field at Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Stadium riding an appaloosa horse named...
  
  , Florida State University Seminoles
  Florida State University
  The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...
  
  
• Chief Wahoo
  Chief Wahoo
  Chief Wahoo is a trademarked logo for the Cleveland Indians baseball team. The illustration is a Native American cartoon caricature.Although the club had adopted the name "Indians" starting with the 1915 season, there was no acknowledgment of this nickname on their uniforms until 1928...
  
  , Cleveland Indians
  Cleveland Indians
  The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , they have played in Progressive Field. The team's spring training facility is in Goodyear, Arizona...
  
  

Defunct mascots

• Chief Illiniwek
  Chief Illiniwek
  Chief Illiniwek was the mascot and the official symbol of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign associated with the University's intercollegiate athletic programs from 1926 to February 21, 2007. The mascot was portrayed by a student dressed in Sioux regalia to honor the Illiniwek, the...
  
  , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
  
  
• the Golden State Warriors
  Golden State Warriors
  The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in Oakland, California. They are part of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association...
  
  ' "Indian warrior" logo was replaced in 1971
• Marquette University
  Marquette University
  Marquette University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1881, the school is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities...
  
  's "Willie Wampum," retired in 1971
• Syracuse University
  Syracuse University
  Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...
  
  's "Saltine Warrior"
• Kansas City Chiefs
  Kansas City Chiefs
  The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They are a member of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Originally named the Dallas Texans, the club was founded by Lamar Hunt in 1960 as a...
  
   horse mascot "Warpaint".
• Chief Brave Spirit, University of Louisiana at Monroe
  University of Louisiana at Monroe
  The University of Louisiana at Monroe is a coeducational public university in Monroe, Louisiana and part of the University of Louisiana System.-History:...
  
  , retired in 2006 (mascot changed from "Indians" to "Warhawks")
• Chief Moccanooga
  Chief Moccanooga
  Chief Moccanooga was the former athletic mascot for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, until 1996, when the university abandoned the mascot as potentially offensive...
  
  , University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
  University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
  The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is a public university located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The University, often referred to as UTC or simply "Chattanooga" , is one of three universities and two other affiliated institutions in the University of Tennessee System; the others being in...
  
   (use of this mascot ended in 1996)
• Chief Noc-A-Homa
  Chief Noc-A-Homa
  Chief Noc-A-Homa was the original mascot of the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves from 1950s until 1986. The name was used for the "screaming Indian" sleeve patch worn on Braves jerseys...
  
  , Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves
  Atlanta Braves
  The Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball club based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. The Braves have played in Turner Field since 1997....
  
   (Use of this mascot ended in early 1980s, existed as late as 1983 season)
• Princess Win-A-Lotta, paired with Chief Noc-A-Homa, introduced late 1970s, dropped at same time as Noc-A-Homa

Fictional teams

• Charlestown Chiefs (Federal Hockey League) (Slap Shot).
• The Mars
  Mars
  Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after the Roman god of war, Mars. It is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance...
  
   Greenskins
  Martian
  As an adjective, the term martian is used to describe anything pertaining to the planet Mars.However, a Martian is more usually a hypothetical or fictional native inhabitant of the planet Mars. Historically, life on Mars has often been hypothesized, although there is currently no solid evidence of...
  
   - Blernsball is the version of baseball in the year 3000 in the show Futurama
  Futurama
  Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of a late 20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J...
  
  .
• Mexico City Aztecs - Blitz: The League II
  Blitz: The League II
  Blitz: The League II is an American football video game in Midway's Blitz series. It was released on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on October 13, 2008. Five new teams and 4 relocated clubs are included in the new installment. The new teams are the Los Angeles Riot, the Houston Riders , Vancouver...
  
  
• NY Mohawks - major league team, The Seventh Game by Roger Kahn.
• Portland Tomahawks - Backbreaker
  Backbreaker (video game)
  Backbreaker is an American football video game, developed by British technology developer NaturalMotion, and released on 1 June 2010 in North America and on 25 June 2010 in Europe. One of its highlights is the use of Euphoria, a game animation engine that determines animations dynamically rather...
  
  
• Warriors - major league team, Today's Game by Martin Quigley
  Martin Quigley
  Martin Quigley is a retired Irish sportsman. He played hurling with his local club Rathnure and with the Wexford senior inter-county team in the 1970s and 1980s...
  
  .
• Warbury Warriors - Stiker
  Striker (comic)
  Striker was a comic strip and magazine which was featured in the tabloid newspaper The Sun from 1985 until 2009 and in the British magazine Nuts from January to October 2010. It was created by Pete Nash. Since its inception, the strip revolved around the life of Nick Jarvis Striker was a comic...
  
   comic strip.
• Zucchini Warriors, in the Gordon Korman
  Gordon Korman
  Gordon Korman is a Canadian author, primarily of novels for children and young adults. He lives in Long Island's Great Neck, New York, with his wife and three children....
  
   novel of that name.

See also

• Indigenous peoples
  Indigenous peoples
  Indigenous peoples are ethnic groups that are defined as indigenous according to one of the various definitions of the term, there is no universally accepted definition but most of which carry connotations of being the "original inhabitants" of a territory....
  
  
• List of sports team names and mascots derived from indigenous peoples
• List of company and product names derived from Indigenous peoples
• List of university and college nickname changes in the United States
• Hail to the Redskins
  Hail to the Redskins
  Hail to the Redskins is the fight song for the Washington Redskins. It was written sometime between 1937 and 1938 and was performed for the first time as the Official Redskins Fight Song on August 17, 1938...
  
  
• Mascot
  Mascot
  The term mascot – defined as a term for any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck – colloquially includes anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name...
  
  

External links

• National Coalition on Racism in Sports & Media, from the American Indian Movement
  American Indian Movement
  The American Indian Movement is a Native American activist organization in the United States, founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota by urban Native Americans. The national AIM agenda focuses on spirituality, leadership, and sovereignty...
  
  
• American Indian Sports Team Mascots information site
• 4000+ Team Names by Sport
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• Random Sports Team Names List Generator
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