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Friday, September 28, 2012

Indian Sprints

I have to commend this blogger for posting this.  I haven't laughed so much in a while.  My child came home with aches in her legs from doing "Indian Sprints" - Never heard the term, so I did some research: 

"An Indian run is when a team (soccer, football, baseball, etc.) joggs in a single file line around a playing field field. It begins when the last person in line sprints to the front. When that person gets there, the next person at the end of the line sprints to the front of the line. This continues as the line jogs around the field. Very tiring.

    Not sure if this is a racist term.

Yeah, pretty sure since it has no discernible origins in anything actually Native, we can deduce it's based off of some stereotype, and therefore fairly racist."

http://nativeappropriations.blogspot.com/2011/05/indian-run-offensive.html