Several years back Mister and I went to Cherokee, North Carolina for a mini-vacation. Right smack on the reservation sat the Redskin Motel, big as life. I took a picture of it.

A few weeks ago I had the great pleasure of meeting Chief Jim Billie, head of the Florida Seminoles. He has recorded a couple of CDs with Seminole legends and original songs, to try to make the old stories appealing to the young people. Anyway, he said, there are a lot of groups today complaining about people using their name to sell products or sports teams or whatever. We don't care. We're proud to be Seminoles. It's all right with us if you use our name - just win, okay? (He was quite a delightful man.)

Someone later told me, and I don't know if it's true, that Florida State has some kind of contract or express permission to use the Seminole name.

For the record, Mister and I own two Jeep Cherokees. :)