July 8, 2020

Dan Snyder Started a Foundation to Support Native Americans. Has It Abandoned Its Mission?

Author: Jenny Vrentas and Michael Rosenberg

For years, Daniel Snyder has claimed to serve Native Americans even as his team's name demeaned them. The “Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation,” founded by the owner in 2014, is proof, in the team’s telling, of its commitment to—and support from—Native American communities. The mission, Snyder wrote in an open letter that spring, was “to provide meaningful and measurable resources that provide genuine opportunities for tribal communities.”
Now, with Snyder pushed to the precipice o