When Native Americans are mocked and constantly reminded that their ancestors were torn apart and turned savage by white men, it is difficult to pick up the pieces and move UP. Native Americans shouldn't even be associated with savages or racial slurs, but this is what happens when Natives are seen as mascots. For example, at one point OSU was playing a team with a Native American mascot and they had a banner that read “Send them home on a trail of tears” (Charles). The Trail of Tears is not an event to scoff at, as it moved the Cherokee tribe from their home state of Georgia to the state of Oklahoma, and over 4,000 Cherokees died during the removal (Trail of Tears, PBS). This shows that even if a minority socioeconomic group is working towards progress in the world of the majority socioeconomic group, some people in the majority socioeconomic group will find anything and do anything to maintain the barriers between the two.