Native American history instructors welcome Washington NFL rebranding
(WorldNews Sport)

Washington`s NFL franchise has long been a topic of conversation in college classrooms. Adam Pratt, an associate professor at the University of Scranton, begins his Native American history course with a lecture about the origins of the team nickname. “When the franchise moved to Boston in the early-1930s, their coach was a guy named William Henry Dietz,” Pratt tells his students. “Dietz claimed, almost his entire life, that he was a Native American, that he grew up on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. The owner wanted to honor the coach by calling the new franchise the...