The Cleveland Indians will retire their longtime and contentious Chief Wahoo logo after the 2018 baseball season, the team said Monday.
Chief Wahoo, through various incarnations, has been in use by the Cleveland Indians since 1947, but in recent years both the logo and the team’s nameย have been criticized as racist. In 2000, the Penobscot Indian Nation formally asked the the team to ditch the logo. More recently, in 2016 Native American activist Douglas Cardinal brought a lawsuit against the team and Major League Baseball seeking to prevent the use of the logo and team name in the AL Championship series.