As its leader, Bartle adopted the name ‘Chief Lone Bear’ in the Mic-O-Say group, and, Schilling notes, “conducted ceremonies on new members by placing an eagle claw around their necks and giving them a ‘ Native name’.” He then created the ‘Mic-O-Say’ scout troop, whose “ceremonies, customs and traditions blend the spirit and pride of the American Indian with the ideals and objectives of the Boy Scouts of America”, according to its website. In a 2019 Indian Country Today article on the origin of Kansas City’s nickname, the Mohawk journalist Vincent Schilling, who is a vocal critic of the treatment of Native Americans in sports team names and traditions, explains that Bartle claimed he had been inducted into a tribe of the Arapaho people, whose chief had given him the nickname ‘ Lone Bear’.
It was Bartle’s 1925 founding of a Boy Scouts of America ‘ tribe’ inspired by the customs and practices of Native Americans that was the catalyst for the team to become known as the Chiefs.
Kansas City mayor’s faux-Native American ‘tribe’ leads to Chiefs nickname While there are movements against the appropriation and misrepresentation of Native American culture by US sports teams, the Chiefs have no immediate plans to change their name - one which they were given in May 1963 and owe to Harold Roe Bartle, a non-Native businessman and a former mayor of the city.
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The Kansas City Chiefs were the last professional team in the United States to adopt a name or logo referencing Native Americans.
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