Spokane Indians baseball uniforms sport Salish word (fwd link)

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March 16, 2014 <http://www.spokesman.com/2014/mar/16/>Spokane Indians
baseball uniforms sport Salish wordJim Kershner Senior correspondent

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When the Spokane Indians baseball players take the field this summer, the
team name will be blazoned across their chests: “Sp’q’n’i.”

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.

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.

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