I find it stunning that the NFL cares more about how much air is in a football than it cares about a racist franchise name.

— Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) May 12, 2015

After failing for months to persuade Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder to meet with Native Americans opposed to the team’s name, a prominent civil rights organization that works closely with the National Football League is calling for the moniker to change.

• The Fritz Pollard Alliance is getting ready to play hardball
• the director of Dan Snyder's outreach to Native Americans isn't really all that sympathetic

Reported at The Washington Post

Opponents of the local NFL team’s name are launching a robo-call campaign in our area. http://t.co/xUDHi6bHgo

— Washingtonian (@washingtonian) January 15, 2015

Laudable effort, but I'm not sure that asking people to listen to an unsolicited one-minute pitch is going to be effective.

Martin Bayne tells all in the lede for this post about storytelling at Changing Aging.

In 1999 Dr. Bill Thomas and I were invited by Chief Oren Lyons to visit The People of the Six Nations, also known by the French term, Iroquois Confederacy. The Native Americans call themselves the Hau de no sau nee (ho dee noe sho nee) meaning People Building a Long House.