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How to use the word Tomahawk in a Sentence?

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Meanwhile, the name' Atlanta Braves,' the tomahawk adorning the team's uniform, and the' tomahawk chop' that the team exhorts its fans to perform at home games are meant to depict and caricature not just one tribal community but all Native people, and that is certainly how baseball fans and Native people everywhere interpret them, in our discussions with the Atlanta Braves, we have repeatedly and unequivocally made our position clear -- Native people are not mascots, and degrading rituals like the' tomahawk chop' that dehumanize and harm us have no place in American society.

American Indians President Fawn Sharp

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Now the team wants to backtrack and say we are being culturally appropriate and we are being respectful of indigenous people by saying no headdresses, and that is a good start, but the fans are still operating as if it is an indigenous-type atmosphere because you are still called the Chiefs. And you can still do this movement that looks like a tomahawk chop, but we are going to call it a drum beat instead. It is kind of silly. Just change it.

Alicia Norris

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It's all wonderful that I get so much respect, but when I walk out of my house and go to Walmart, I'm just a Black person in tattoos and a tomahawk haircut, i still can't be treated as a plain human being in my country. Being Black in America is like living a horror story.

Linda Addison

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The Tomahawk missile is one of the tools that is going to allow us to do that.

David Berger

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This isn't just about casual racism, war whoops, tomahawk chops... Donald Trump?It can say whatever Donald Trump?It wants about me, but mocking Native Americans, or any group, in order to get at me, that's not what America stands for.

Native Americans

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Everyone is focused on the Tomahawk strike, the dust-up with North Korea, those were tactical responses. Eventually the President Donald Trump administration is going to have to have an actual strategy and there's going to have to be a diplomatic component if we're going to have any real success.

Christine Wormuth

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The smallest ship in the U.S. Navy to carry a Tomahawk missile would be destroyer size – that’s about 10 times the size [of the Russian ships].

Eric Wertheim

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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