People began to raise objections about the team’s nickname in the late 1950s and early 1960s, says J. Gordon Hylton, a professor of law at Marquette University Law School and a visiting professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. In 2010, Hylton wrote a law review article about the use of Native American team names. “The initial wave of complaints is about the disparaging way in which Native Americans are portrayed in Hollywood films,” he explained. The representation of Native Americans as savage marauders pillaging wagon trains on the Plains didn’t sit well...