Canadian Football League's Eskimos agree to 可決する・採択する a new 指名する まっただ中に rising 圧力 from sponsors and the country's 60,000 Inuit people

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The Edmonton Eskimos will change their 指名する まっただ中に rising 圧力 from sponsors and the country's Inuit 全住民.?

The Canadian Football League team 発表するd the 決定／判定勝ち（する） on Tuesday, に引き続いて a 決定／判定勝ち（する） to do the same by Washington's NFL team.

Teams across sports have been under 増加するing 圧力 to 減少（する） 人種差別主義者 or stereotypical 指名するs. Critics say the Edmonton team's 指名する is a derogatory, 植民地の-時代 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 for Inuit.

The Edmonton Eskimos will change their 指名する まっただ中に rising 圧力 from sponsors and the country's Inuit 全住民. The Canadian Football League team 発表するd the 決定／判定勝ち（する） on Tuesday, に引き続いて a 決定／判定勝ち（する） to do the same by Washington's NFL team

Edmonton team 大統領，／社長 Chris Presson said in a ビデオ 会議／協議会 that the club wants to keep its 二塁打-E logo, 同様に as its green-and-gold colors

The team said in a 解放（する） it will begin 'a 包括的な 約束／交戦 過程' on a new 指名する. In the 合間, the club will use the 指名するs EE Football Team and Edmonton Football Team.

Edmonton team 大統領，／社長 Chris Presson said in a ビデオ 会議／協議会 that the club wants to keep its 二塁打-E logo, 同様に as its green-and-gold colors.

In February, the Edmonton club 発表するd it was keeping the 指名する に引き続いて year-long 研究 that 伴う／関わるd Inuit leaders and community members across Canada. The club said it received 'no 合意' during that review.

On July 8, Edmonton 約束d to 速度(を上げる） up another review of its 指名する and 供給する an update by the end of the month. In that 声明, the club 公式文書，認めるd 'a lot has happened' since it made the 決定／判定勝ち（する） in February.

One of the team's sponsors, 国家の car-and-home 保険 provider Belairdirect, had 発表するd a day earlier that it was rethinking its 関係 with the team because of the 指名する.

Other sponsors also said they would welcome a review of the 指名する.

Canada's 国家の Inuit organization in 2015 said it was time for a change. 'It isn't 権利 for any team to be 指名するd after an 民族の group,' said Natan Obed (pictured), 大統領，／社長 of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, which 代表するs Canada's 60,000 Inuit. He 追加するd that Inuit people aren't mascots

総理大臣 Justin Trudeau and 大統領 of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami Natan Obed talk as they overlook Iqaluit Canadian 総理大臣 Justin Trudeau visit to Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada

All this happened as NFL's Washington team said it would を受ける a 徹底的な review of its 指名する. A 類似の 告示 was made by Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians.

It is 不明瞭な when Edmonton would play its first game with a new 指名する. The CFL in June 延期するd the start of its 2020 season because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and there is no 保証（人） the league will play this year.

There have been repeated calls in the past for the Edmonton team to change its 指名する.

Canada's 国家の Inuit organization in 2015 said it was time for a change.

'It isn't 権利 for any team to be 指名するd after an 民族の group,' said Natan Obed, 大統領，／社長 of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, which 代表するs Canada's 60,000 Inuit. Obed has said that Inuit people are not mascots.

Although American Inuit continue to use the word Eskimo, Canada's northern people left that 指名する behind about the same time they began 交渉するing their land （人命などを）奪う，主張する in the 1970s.

設立するd in 1949, the Edmonton team has won the Grey Cup 14 times, second only to the Toronto Argonauts at 17.

手渡す painted 固める／コンクリート 障壁s stand in the parking lot of FedEx Field, home of the NFL's Washington Redskins team July 13