Perspectives among Native American individuals and tribal communities regarding historical terms and team names vary, but the vast majority of contemporary Indigenous civil rights organizations, cultural scholars, and tribal councils strongly reject the term as an offensive, derogatory historical racial slur. While a small fraction of individuals historically argued otherwise or expressed indifference, major Native American advocacy groups have universally characterized such terminology as harmful, disrespectful, and degrading to Indigenous identity, leading to widespread systemic changes across professional and amateur sports.