Will The Chicago Blackhawks Get a New Logo?
First Nations chief, Ghislain Picard, has endorsed the use of a new logo designed around an actual black hawk.
The Chicago Blackhawks logo as we know it now looks like this:
As CBS points out, there has been some debate regarding the Blackhawks' Indian head logo as offensive.
Quebec's top First Nations chief, Ghislain Picard, has endorsed the use of a new logo designed around an actual black hawk rather than an Indian head.
If you didn't know, The Chicago Blackhawks original Indian head logo is representative not of a man or people first... but rather a World War I machine gun battalion that was named after a man, Black Hawk, a leader of the Sauk tribe in the early 19th century.
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