Description
This Thesis is a qualitative, critical-visual analysis of the National Hockey League’s Chicago Blackhawk’s mascot, Chief Blackhawk. Through a decolonizing-deconstruction of various Indigenous stereotypes, this Thesis will examine the ethical and moral consequences of the continued use of disparaging Indigenous imagery for professional sports mascots, dominant White society’s reliance on the Indian as the measure of American identity, and the ramifications of colonial control of Indigenous agency, thereby justifying Westward expansion.
