Braves' tomahawk chop, explained: How chant started and the effort to rid baseball of 'racist' stereotypes
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The tomahawk chop is ubiquitous during Braves home games, but a growing number of critics have decried the tradition as a racist — and inaccurate — depiction of Native American culture since it began around 1991.
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