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We, the Undersigned Members of OAH, along with Selected Nonmembers, Support the Resolution to Change the Name and Logo of the Washington “Redskins.”

We, the Undersigned Members of OAH,

along with Selected Nonmembers,

Support the Resolution to Change the Name and Logo of the Washington “Redskins.”

Members

Ira Berlin, Professor of History, University of Maryland

Ned Blackhawk, Professor of History, Yale University

Vernon Burton, Professor of History, Sociology, and Computer Science, Clemson University; emeritus Professor of History, University of Illinois (Urbana/Champaign)

Chet DeFonso, Professor of History, Northern Michigan University*

Philip J. Deloria, Professor of History and Native American Studies, University of Michigan

Eric Foner, Professor of History, Columbia University

Lee Formwalt, former Executive Director, OAH

Lawrence Friedman, emeritus Professor of History, Indiana University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University

Steven Garabedian, Professor of History, Marist College

Robert Goodrich, Professor of History, Northern Michigan University*

Lois E. Horton, emerita Professor of History, George Mason University

Keith Kendall, Professor of History, Northern Michigan University*

Patricia Limerick, Professor of History, University of Colorado

April Lindala, Professor of Native American Studies, Northern Michigan University*

James W. Loewen, emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Vermont; Visiting Professor of African American Studies, University of Illinois (Urbana/Champaign)

Gabe Logan, Associate Professor of History, Northern Michigan University*

Rebecca Mead, Professor of History, Northern Michigan University*

James P. O’Brien, emeritus Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Martin J. Reinhardt, Assistant Professor of Native American Studies, Northern Michigan University*

David Roediger, Professor of American Studies, University of Kansas

Rod Ross, National Archives

Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History, Virginia Tech

Richard White, Professor of History, Stanford University

Alan Willis, Professor of History, Northern Michigan University*

* = membership claimed institutionally via NMU Library

Non-Members

Monroe Gilmour, Coordinator, North Carolina Mascot Education & Action Group (NCMEAG)

Hunter Gray, emeritus Professor and Chair, American Indian Studies, University of North Dakota; Mi'kmaq / St. Francis Abenaki / St. Regis Mohawk

Mike Jetty, Indian Education Specialist, Montana Office of Public Instruction

Kathryn Johnson, Instructor of History, Northern Michigan University

Lance Kelley, Instructor of General Studies, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, Muskogee Creek

Frank Miller, emeritus Professor of American Indian Studies and Anthropology, University of Minnesota

Barbara Stewart Mogel, retired Exhibit Manager, National Museum of the American Indian

The Native American House, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Barbara O'Connell, emerita Professor of Anthropology, Hamline University

Cornel Pewewardy, Professor and Director, Indigenous Nations Studies, Portland State University

Richard L. Thornton, Tribal Historian, Koweta Creek Tribe of Alabama and Georgia, and Architect, Trail of Tears Memorial, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Wendy Zagray Warren, Professor, Berea College; formerly Indian Education For All Coordinator for Columbia Falls Schools, Columbia Falls, MT

Keith Wheelock, emeritus Professor of History, Raritan Valley Community College

Please note: institutional affiliations are for identification only; individuals sign for themselves, not for their institutions (except for The Native American House, which signs as an entity).

Direct queries to James W. Loewen, jloewen@uvm.edu, 202.269.6655.