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(Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)Patrick Smith—Getty Images  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian May 19, 2016 7:40 PM UTC A newly released Washington _Post_ [poll](https://www.washingtonpost.com/page/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2016/05/19/National-Politics/Polling/release%5F424.xml) showed nine out of ten Native Americans are [not bothered](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/new-poll-finds-9-in-10-native-americans-arent-offended-by-redskins-name/2016/05/18/3ea11cfa-161a-11e6-924d-838753295f9a%5Fstory.html) by the ‘Washington Redskins’ [NFL team name](http://time.com/4070537/redskins-linguistics/). According to the survey, released Thursday, 73% of respondents said they also did not find the word “Redskin” was offensive towards Native Americans in general, and 80% said they would not be offended if a non-Native American person used the word to refer to them personally. The results could be used to counter a [national](http://time.com/108893/washington-redskins-name-senators/) [movement](http://time.com/3319206/fcc-chair-redskins-offensive-derogatory/) advocating that the NFL team change its name and mascot. NFL team owner Daniel Snyder also released a Thursday statement about the results, and said the name represents “honor, respect and pride.” Two Native American leaders of the name change movement released a joint statement arguing that the results prove the Native American community’s resilience, not that the term is inoffensive. “Native Americans are resilient and have not allowed the NFL’s decades-long denigration of us to define our own self-image,” said National Congress of American Indians Executive Director Jackie Pata and Oneida Nation Representative Ray Halbritter on Thursday. “However, that proud resilience does not give the NFL a license to continue marketing, promoting, and profiting off of a dictionary-defined racial slur — one that tells people outside of our community to view us as mascots.” The survey polled 504 people across the country between December and April. \[[_Washington Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/new-poll-finds-9-in-10-native-americans-arent-offended-by-redskins-name/2016/05/18/3ea11cfa-161a-11e6-924d-838753295f9a%5Fstory.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4342011/washington-redskins-nfl-team-poll/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4342011/washington-redskins-nfl-team-poll/"},"headline":"9 in 10 Native Americans Not Bothered by 'Redskins' NFL Team, Poll Finds","datePublished":"2016-05-19T19:40:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T17:41:39.547Z","description":"Most did not find the term \"Redskin\" offensive","url":"https://time.com/4342011/washington-redskins-nfl-team-poll/","keywords":["Sports topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta829e6508cb207ce/698893f52dce0150cf9e924f/redskins-name-poll-offended-washington-post.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta829e6508cb207ce/698893f52dce0150cf9e924f/redskins-name-poll-offended-washington-post.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"redskins name poll offended washington post","caption":"redskins name poll offended washington post","creditText":"Patrick Smith—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4342011/washington-redskins-nfl-team-poll/","name":"9 in 10 Native Americans Not Bothered by 'Redskins' NFL Team, Poll Finds"}}]}] ```