Bonding with Mascots

            The author started to ask the question of how universities like Florida State, treats and has a relationship with an Indian tribe like the Seminoles. The article’s purpose is to discover the relationship between the Seminoles and the university. How the university portray the Indians, how the Indians feel about the use of their tribal name, and how the university and the NCAA tries to promote the tribes culture and history. His research shows that the use of tribe’s name as a mascot has promoted awareness of the tribe to the students and the public. More people have learned what the university has taken out of context or misrepresented of the tribe’s history and culture throughout the years. Even with this new information about how the tribe has been used by the university throughout the years. The students of the university and the tribe have been mostly receptive to the new mascot and for now will accept it even though it is not one hundred percent accurate.