November-December 2000

"The Miccosukees can just get their squaws pregnant" Liz Claiborne ignores CRaZY HORSE clothing protest Belgian New-Agers conduct a "sweatlodge" in an "igloo" Site blames Indian "mutilations" for Custer's campaigns EPA mural shows Indians attacking naked white women Students wear headdresses and war paint for Thanksgiving Chicago Tribune reprints "Injun Summer" nostalgia piece Noise-maker wrapper pictures a wild Indian riding a pig

Dishonorable mention THE LOSER!

October 2000

Website jokes about "Injun" "heathens" and "drunks" Editorial:  Chief Illiniwek is a "venerated representative" Lewis & Clark committee rejects a mention of genocide Jaycees hold "Trail of Fears" near Cherokee mounds US House introduces a bill to ban Indian "preferences" Sitting Bull Energy Drink sports a blue Mohawk warrior Teachers defend the use of the "Ten Little Indians" song Genealogy site presents only the colonist side of warfare Prison accuses Native inmates of smoking pot in pipes Spokane students dressed as Indians do a "war dance" Online program generates "authentic Indian names" Website promises shamanic journeys, medicine wheels Conn. editorial says "contrived tribes" seek recognition

Dishonorable mention THE LOSER!

September 2000

Book says Calif. Native faith is based on "shamanism" Navajo blames "Corporate Hopis" for Ariz. land conflict eBay auction item shows a girl wearing a "war bonnet" "Crescent Moongoddess" sells Vision Quest Tarot Deck Close to Home cartoon spoofs Indians' naming style Website claims jealous God killed a white buffalo calf Texas ignores oral history, digs up an Apache graveyard Green Nations gathering conducts "purification lodges" Armey says Native mascot concerns are "fantasy stuff"

Dishonorable mention THE LOSER!

August 2000

Orthodox Wannabe League considers themselves Indian County commissioner says Indians are "Federal property" Texas radio station makes fun of the "Slap-A-Ho Tribe" Seller auctions a "Cherokee war bonnet" for casual wear Chicago firefighters call Native colleague "Chief Sitting Bull" Denver Post refers to Thundercloud song as a "chant" Vermont proposes DNA testing for Native Americans Baby-product firm dresses tots in buckskins and war paint Online poll ignores Native beliefs on origin of Americas Fla. Chasco festival calls Indians "savages" and "heathen"

THE LOSER! Dishonorable mention

July 2000

Wal-Mart sells regalia patterns as Halloween costumes Tee Pee Campground has "squaw" and "brave" restrooms New Agers peddle "Cherokee visions" to cure illnesses Joke-of-the-day website makes fun of killing Indians Teacher does face-painting to "teach" kids about Indians "We do not recognize [Indians] as sovereign nations" Online stores sell Indian "warrior," "princess" costumes

Dishonorable mention THE LOSER!

May-June 2000

Indians are asked about having a casino, living in a teepee Shanghai Noon uses a chief, teepee, daughter, and pipe Finger puppet set includes an Eskimo with polar animals Birds & Blooms mag flaunts a Chief Wahoo birdhouse FF #29:  "A people stripped of pride, a land bereft of hope" Teachers dress and dance like "Indians" at Minn. pep rally Nugent dons an "Indian" headdress and shoots a "buffalo"

Dishonorable mention THE LOSER!

April 2000

Writer believes the Aztecs were murdering "animals" Ford (pickup truck) = "Found on Reservation Dead" The Road to El Dorado ignores genocide of Natives Native woman owns non-crafts business, BMW, house? Untidy yards are compared to "Indian reservations" Howard Stern mocks Indians in Son of the Beach spoof Indian Motorcycle logo features a red-skinned "chief" Chief Wahoo doesn't hinder "full enjoyment" of a park

THE LOSER! Dishonorable mention

March 2000

Mardi Gras:  "To be an Indian is a very special calling" Casino cartoon and ads portray Indians superficially Alphabet products show igloos among animal kingdom "Why don't you people go back where you came from?" Ex-wife seeks Siletz child to save "heathen/pagan soul" Video store defends Peter Pan's red-skinned savages Cigar-store Indian on ice represents "diversity week" Wal-Mart subsidiary trains its staff to be "Red Indians" "...[I thought] they might pay me in dead beaver pelts"

Dishonorable mention THE LOSER!

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