[martyup]

Nobody is saying the word can't be used, so speech isn't being impeded.  It's the profiting from the name that is being discouraged.

I'm pretty confident that the groups that have been pushing to have the term banned, want it banned. 

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/take2/2014...tle-times/
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013...76321.html

There are hundreds of businesses and products that were named using Native American tribe names and nicknames.  Do we want the government to interfere with their ability to protect their tradenames?  I am not trying to equivocate or judge their offensiveness, but just a few examples are: Red Man Tobacco, Tillamook Dairy Products, Jeep Cherokee, Chief Auto Parts, Indian Motorcycles, Apache Corporation, and Minnetonka Moccasins.

The following would be more funny if it wasn't so close to the truth:

http://www.intellihub.com/federal-govern...americans/

[martyup]

Nobody is saying the word can't be used, so speech isn't being impeded.  It's the profiting from the name that is being discouraged.

I'm pretty confident that the groups that have been pushing to have the term banned, want it banned. 

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/take2/2014...tle-times/
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013...76321.html

There are hundreds of businesses and products that were named using Native American tribe names and nicknames.  Do we want the government to interfere with their ability to protect their tradenames?  I am not trying to equivocate or judge their offensiveness, but just a few examples are: Red Man Tobacco, Tillamook Dairy Products, Jeep Cherokee, Chief Auto Parts, Indian Motorcycles, Apache Corporation, and Minnetonka Moccasins.

The following would be more funny if it wasn't so close to the truth:

http://www.intellihub.com/federal-govern...americans/