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Lily Gladstone Criticizes Kansas City Chiefs' Tomahawk Chop and San Francisco 49ers' Mascot

Gladstone is of Siksikaitsitapi and Niimiipuu heritage and the first Native American to earn a Best Actress Oscar nomination.

The 37-year-old actress opened up about the subject during an interview on Variety's Awards Circuit podcast, in which she offered the harmful implications of the Chiefs' chant rooted in racist tropes. Every time, it's a stark reminder of what Hollywood has done to us, because the tomahawk chop directly ties to the sounds of old Westerns where we were not playing ourselves, or if we were, we were merely backdrop actors pretty much there to get shot. The racial justice reckoning in 2020 ultimately led to Cleveland's baseball team dropping Indians as its mascot and adopting the Guardians in 2021.

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