Given his intense racism against the black man, I highly doubt George Preston Marshall did anything out of honor or respect for the American Indian. This is a man who owned the last team to integrate, forced to do so when Udall and Kennedy threatened to revoke his stadium lease. A man who left behind lots of money at death for a foundation with the proviso that not one penny of it be used for any cause or entity that supported racial integration in any form. A man who required the marching band to play Dixie before the Star Spangled Banner at his home games. A man who so admired and respected Coach Dietz--who may not have been Indian in the first place-- that he fired him after two years. Seems highly doubtful to me that a man like this would make his decision on the team name as any kind of tribute to another race or culture.
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