Cancel culture activists thought they had scored a permanent victory when they forced the Washington Redskins to abandon their historic identity.
They celebrated erasing what they claimed was a "racist" symbol while patting themselves on the back for their social justice crusade.
But the Washington Redskins logo family just gave the cancel culture mob one reality check they never saw coming.
The real story behind the Washington Redskins logo that nobody wanted to hear
For nearly five decades, the face of the Washington Redskins belonged to Blackfeet tribal chief John Two Guns White Calf.
The proud warrior served as the team’s logo from 1972 until the woke mob successfully pressured the NFL franchise to abandon its identity in 2020.
White Calf wasn’t just some random face – he was a genuine American hero who spent his life fighting for Native American rights and working with federal officials on treaty matters.
He worked alongside presidents and became so famous that he served as the model for the 1913 "Indian head" nickel and even made President Calvin Coolidge an honorary member of the Blackfeet Nation.
His death in 1934 was so significant that newspapers across America covered it on their front pages.
But the cancel culture warriors didn’t care about any of that history.
They wanted to erase every trace of Native American imagery from American sports – and the Redskins became their number one target.
The George Soros connection that the media conveniently ignored
Thomas White Calf, the great-nephew of the legendary chief, just dropped a bombshell that exposes the real forces behind the name change campaign.
Writing in The New York Post, White Calf revealed that the National Congress of American Indians – which led the charge to destroy his great-uncle’s legacy – receives funding from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.¹
That’s right – the same billionaire who funds radical leftist causes across America was backing one of the organizations in the effort to erase Native American history from professional sports.
The Soros-backed activists didn’t just demand the name change – they deliberately dehumanized Chief White Calf by ridiculing him as a "savage and clownish mascot."
They reduced a genuine American hero to a cartoon character so they could justify erasing him from public memory entirely.
A 2016 Washington Post poll found that 90% of Native Americans surveyed said the name didn’t bother them, though this polling has faced criticism and later studies have shown different results.²
But the activists didn’t care what the polling data suggested about Native American opinion.
The family was never asked for their opinion about their own ancestor
Here’s the part that should make every American’s blood boil – nobody bothered to ask the White Calf family what they thought about using their ancestor’s image.
For nearly 50 years, Chief White Calf’s face represented the Washington Redskins with the full support of Blackfeet leader Blackie Wetzel and Native Americans across the country.
But when the cancel culture crowd decided to target the team, they never once reached out to get the family’s perspective.
"Nobody asked the White Calf family for our opinion," Thomas White Calf stated bluntly in his powerful op-ed.
The activists simply assumed they knew better than the actual descendants of the man whose image they were supposedly "protecting."
The activists claimed they were defending Native Americans while completely disregarding the voices of actual Native American families like the White Calfs.
It’s the perfect example of white liberal saviorism – privileged elites deciding what’s best for minorities without bothering to ask them.
Donald Trump gives the family hope for the first time in years
The White Calf family had been silenced and ignored for years until President Donald Trump began speaking out about restoring the Redskins name.
Trump’s support represents the first time anyone in a position of real power has stood up for their family’s wishes.
Thomas White Calf wrote that his family "is deeply grateful to President Donald Trump for his bold calls to bring back the Washington Redskins and expose racial injustice."
Now the family is making specific demands to correct the historical injustice that was done to their ancestor.
They’re asking the Washington franchise – still the Redskins to many fans – to work with President Trump to reclaim the Redskins name and restore Chief White Calf’s image as the team logo.
They want a seat at the table in any future discussions – something they were denied during the original controversy.
The family is also requesting that a Hall of Honor be established in a new stadium to celebrate White Calf, the Blackfeet people, and Native American contributions to America.
This exposes everything wrong with cancel culture
The Washington Redskins controversy perfectly demonstrates how cancel culture operates in America today.
Radical leftist organizations – funded by globalist billionaires like George Soros – manufacture outrage about issues that don’t actually offend the people they claim to represent.
They use emotional manipulation and corporate pressure campaigns to force changes that nobody asked for.
Then they pat themselves on the back for being such great champions of social justice – except they completely steamrolled the actual Native American family whose ancestor they were supposedly "protecting."
Look at what happened here. You had a Native American chief who became a genuine American success story – honored on currency, celebrated by presidents, remembered fondly by his own people. The Redskins logo was actually a tribute to real Native American achievement.
But the activists couldn’t stand that. They needed a villain for their fundraising campaigns, so they turned Chief White Calf into one. Suddenly he wasn’t a respected tribal leader anymore – he was just another "problematic" image that had to disappear.
It’s textbook liberal activism. Show up with a bullhorn, claim you’re speaking for people you’ve never met, then declare victory when you’ve destroyed something that wasn’t hurting anybody to begin with.
The NFL will have to answer some uncomfortable questions
Now that the White Calf family has gone public with their story, the NFL finds itself in an incredibly awkward position.
The league capitulated to activists who were supposedly defending Native Americans – but it turns out those activists never spoke for the Native Americans who actually mattered.
Now you’ve got the actual White Calf family saying they want their great-uncle back on those helmets. They want the Redskins name restored. They’re proud of what he represented.
So where does that leave the NFL? They spent years telling everyone they had to get rid of "offensive" Native American imagery. But it turns out the Native Americans who actually matter – the family whose ancestor was being honored – never wanted it gone in the first place.
The team currently known as the Washington Commanders will face enormous pressure to address the White Calf family’s requests.
Especially with President Trump in the White House and publicly supporting the restoration of the Redskins name.
This story isn’t going away – and the cancel culture crowd who thought they had won a permanent victory are about to discover they picked a fight with the wrong family.
The truth has a way of coming out eventually.
And in this case, the truth completely destroys the narrative that the woke mob spent years building.
¹ Thomas White Calf, "NFL’s Washington Redskins should restore name and logo, says family of Indian chief it was based on," New York Post, August 16, 2025.
² Scott Clement, John Woodrow Cox and Theresa Vargas, "New poll finds 9 in 10 Native Americans aren’t offended by Redskins name," Washington Post, May 19, 2016.
