Object Details
- Creator
- Concerned American Indian Parents
- Donor
- Helmberger, Pat L.
- Collection Creator
- National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
- Provenance
- Donated by Pat L. Helmberger in 2008.
- Creator
- Concerned American Indian Parents
- See more items in
- General Manuscripts and Ephemera collections
- Extent
- .01 Linear feet
- Date
- 1987
- Container
- Map-case 14
- Archival Repository
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Type
- Archival materials
- Ephemera
- Collection Citation
- Identification of specific item; Date (if known); General Manuscripts and Ephemera collections, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.
- Scope and Contents
- A poster featuring three fictional sports team pennants of the Pittsburgh Negroes, the Kansas City Jews, and the San Diego Caucasians, contrasted with one real pennant of the Cleveland Indians. The poster reads, "Maybe Now You Know How Native Americans Feel. For too long, America has treated its original citizens like mascots instead of people. If you'd like to help change that, write to us at 100 N. 6th Street, Suite 531-B, Minneapolis, MN 55403 or call (612) 333-5365. Concerned American Indian Parents." This poster was created in 1987 by the Minnesota-based group Concerned American Indian Parents, and through the efforts of member/founder Phil St. John [Sisitonwan Dakota (Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe)]. St. John distributed the posters in order to challenge racial stereotyping and to confront the negative use of Indians as mascots.
- Collection Restrictions
- Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
- Record ID
- ebl-1562730618255-1562730618263-1
