Indians sue the Washington Redskins Football Team Commanders for not being the Redskins anymore

Wikipedia is full of subtle indications its a chuddy political pressure group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_Guardians_Association

In 2019, the Killingly High School in Long Island saw its board of education retire their mascot, the Redman, citing concerns that it was racist and offensive to Native Americans. A school board election in 2020 saw a Republican majority elected which voted 5–4 along party lines to reinstate the mascot. Several members closed their statements with the motto of NAGA, "Educate, not eradicate," but critics said that organization is a fringe group which does not represent the views of most Native Americans.

On Facebook, Sherri Mitchell, an indigenous-rights attorney in Maine, called NAGA "fake Indians" being paid by the Washington Football Team to promote native mascots. However, the leadership of NAGA includes several members of Native American tribes.

Local members of the Wabanaki Confederacy protested the presentations that NAGA gave to the school board, stating that the presence of Indians from other tribes breaks an "oral tradition" of Native Americans only "speak[ing] for your own nation." The Wabanaki protesters also said that NAGA had "an aggressive reputation" and that "they have no right to be here."

In 2021, the State of Colorado passed a law banning the use of references to Native Americans in any way as a mascot for any school, public, private, or charter, unless the school had entered an agreement with a specific Native American tribe prior to the laws passing. NAGA sued the state of Colorado and would be represented by the Mountain States Legal Foundation.

A member of the governor's commission, Darius Smith (Navajo), says that NAGA does not have credibility or represent the way many American Indians feel about the issue. In May, 2022 the judge dismissed the suit on the basis of NAGA having failed to establish standing to bring the case.

During a lawsuit against the Redskins in November 2015 over if the team could retain its trademark of the term Redskin, the group wrote an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the team. Afterwards Sports Illustrated investigated the various pro-Redskins organizations that spoke or wrote on behalf of Daniel Snyder in court, and found that most where receiving multi-thousand dollar donations from the Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation (WROAF), which was founded by Snyder. Specifically, Sports Illustrated found that NAGA received $68,360 from WROAF shortly before the brief went public. The report stated that "direct ties between NAGA and Snyder's team are hard to find, but indirect ties are rampant" citing executive board member Mark Yancy's lack of Native American blood. NAGA says it is funded through donations from private donors, and the group does not disclose who made donations so a connection to WROAF would be obscured. Sports Illustrated concluded that the group is "disturbing" as they have "no ties to the communities they tried to lobby, but also because some [members] are aggressive."