Original sentence: "The Indian Wars", March 4, 2002, pp 66-72), 83% of American Indian respondents to a Sports Illustrated poll said that professional teams should not stop using Indian nicknames, mascots or symbols.According to a 2002 Sports Illustrated article (Price, S
Edited sentence: Interestingly, as a whole the American Indian people themselves do not oppose the Redskins, Indians or Braves nicknames according to an article in the March 4, 2002 edition of Sports Illustrated magazine, The Indian Wars by S.Price with a sidebar by Andrea Woo, pp 66-72.Putting it charitably, the Price and Woo articles said that there's a near total disconnect between Indian activists and the rank and file Native American population on this issue.Those articles reported that according to a poll by the Peter Harris Research Group, that with a margin of error of plus or minus 4%, 83% of the Indians polled said that professional teams should not stop using Indian nicknames, mascots or symbols.When pollsters asked Native Americans about the Washington Redskins American football team, and the Cleveland Indians and Atlanta Braves baseball clubs, they found no great resentment toward the team names