The 14-time Grey Cup champions say there is no consensus that their nickname is offensive. Many in the Inuit community disagree
Two weeks after the Kansas City Chiefs won
Super Bowl LIV, the Edmonton franchise in the Canadian
Football League made an announcement that barely moved the needle on the professional sports seismometer: the team had decided to keep its nickname, the Eskimos.
It was not big news because the nine-team CFL draws scant interest compared with the
NFL, and also because many people don’t even know the nickname is a racial slur – even though the Inuit, the Indigenous people in northern
Canada, say it is to them.