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<h1 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:28px;margin:0px 0px 10px;clear:both;line-height:1.2;color:rgb(17,17,17)">Spokane Indians baseball uniforms sport Salish word</h1>Jim Kershner Senior correspondent</div><div class="gmail_default">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default"><img src="cid:ii_144d624272b8041a" alt="Inline image 1"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div>When the Spokane Indians baseball players take the field this summer, the team name will be blazoned across their chests: “Sp’q’n’i.”<br>
<br>That’s the Spokane Salish language version of the name. On opening day, June 13, this Short Season Class A minor league baseball team will become the first-ever professional baseball team to use a Native American language in this way.<br>
<br>The jersey is the fruit of an unusual collaboration between a team and a tribe. Unusual, because in several high-profile examples – the Washington Redskins and the Cleveland Indians, to name two – the issue of Indian-related team names and mascots has generated more controversy than collaboration. In Cleveland, the “Chief Wahoo” mascot has been derided as a demeaning cartoon; in Washington, D.C., the team name has been derided as just plain racist.<br>
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