Topic > Offensive Language in Sports in the Indian Wars indigenous peoples" (Price 66). This quote helps establish an emotional connection to the use of words like “redskins,” but it does not fully capture how this word was used by Europeans to dehumanize and humiliate Native Americans. It seems that throughout the essay Price points out to the audience that these words are offensive and unfair to Native Americans, but almost completely ignores the deeper reasons why each is offensive, which would be helpful to fully understand both sides of the question One way to understand the ineffectiveness of Price's essay is to compare it with an effective example in chapter two of Language and Prejudice entitled "Language and Ethnicity" by Tamara Valentine. In this chapter she talks about prejudice against different ethnicities that is created or perceived by the language we use. Sometimes this language has a purpose and most of the time it is subconscious, but the purpose of the chapter is to make us recognize the things we say in the presence of different people. In a passage at the beginning of the article, she