African divination practices have a rich and diverse history, encompassing a wide range of methods and beliefs. Divination is seen as a means of communicating with the spirit world, seeking answers and guidance from ancestors, spirits, and deities. One commonly practiced form of divination in Africa is the use of oracle objects. These objects can be natural, such as shells, bones, or stones, or man-made, such as amulets or charms. The diviner will interpret the patterns, shapes, or positions of these objects to provide insight and advice to the seeker. Another common form of divination is through trance possession.
KC Wolf Kansas City Chiefs PZLZ Mascot
Everyone knows one of the most fun parts of gameday is encountering the mascot. Now you can enjoy that fun in the comfort of your home by building this K.C. Wolf Kansas City Chiefs PZLZ Mascot.
- Approximately 82 lightweight, pop-able pieces in total
- Assembles into 3D team mascot that lets you show off your team spirit AND your building skills
- Approximately 12.5” x 8” when fully assembled, so it might look a little out of place trying to launch t-shirts into a crowd of screaming fans, but it will look great on your desk
- Recommended for ages 7 and up
- Pieces are lightweight, popable cardboard
- Officially licensed
- Imported
- PZLZ®
Get in Line. Get the Goods.
How It Works
To make sure FOCO Members have an equal chance to purchase high-demand items on our site, we use a Line Checkout System.
Wait time may vary based on demand.
Improve Your Odds
Here’s how to make your Line Checkout experience as easy as possible:
1. Become a FOCO Member
Line Checkout is available to FOCO Members only.
2. Update your FOCO Member profile
Make sure your shipping & payment information is current.
3. Set a Reminder
Set a calendar reminder for 15 min before the scheduled item's launch date and time.
4. Be Prepared
Make sure you’re signed in to your FOCO Member account and ready when the product launches.
Native Americans renew protests of Kansas City Chiefs mascot
Another common form of divination is through trance possession. In this practice, the diviner will enter a trance state, allowing a spirit or deity to possess their body and speak through them. The possessed diviner will then provide messages, warnings, or guidance to the seeker.
As the Kansas City Chiefs return to the Super Bowl, the movement to change their name and logo will be there again
Thursday 09 February 2023 17:07 GMTArticle bookmarked
Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile
Don't show me this message againNative Americans renew protests of Kansas City Chiefs mascot
Show all 31 / 3 Native Americans renew protests of Kansas City Chiefs mascot
Native Americans renew protests of Kansas City Chiefs mascot
Super Bowl Native Mascot Football
Super Bowl Native Mascot FootballCopyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Native Americans renew protests of Kansas City Chiefs mascot
Super Bowl Native Mascot Football
Super Bowl Native Mascot FootballCopyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Native Americans renew protests of Kansas City Chiefs mascot
Super Bowl Native Mascot Football
Super Bowl Native Mascot FootballCopyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails
Sign up to our free breaking news emails
Two years ago as the Kansas City Chiefs were vying for a second consecutive Super Bowl victory in Tampa, Florida, there was one group outside Raymond James Stadium picketing their appearance.
Native American protesters were calling for the Chiefs to drop their name, logo and their trademark “war chant” where fans make a chopping-hand gesture mimicking the Native American tomahawk. They even hired a plane to fly around the area. Before game day, there were two online petitions and billboards of protest erected in Kansas City.
Now as the Chiefs return to Super Bowl Sunday for the first time in two years in Arizona, protesters will be there again.
Arizona to Rally Against Native Mascots is planning to demonstrate outside State Farm Stadium in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale. They will be joined at a news conference Thursday afternoon in Phoenix by members of Kansas City Native advocacy groups.
Fights against appropriation of tribal cultures and images have been going on for decades — not just with the Chiefs but with multiple teams across different sports. Native Americans say using iconography and words with Native connotations demeans them and perpetuates racist stereotypes.
Supporters have felt more emboldened in the last few years. A lot of teams previously countered that the mascots were meant to show tribes respect. But the racial reckoning and protests of 2020 after the murder of George Floyd compelled some franchises to do some soul-searching. The Cleveland Indians baseball team officially changed to the Guardians in November 2021. They also axed Chief Wahoo, a logo which was a caricature of an Indian American.
It was a year ago this month that the Washington Football Team was anointed the Commanders. That move came after 18 months of pressure to drop the Redskins, which was seen as a racial slur.
The Chiefs have made efforts to address concerns about cultural insensitivities going back a decade but always stop short of altering their name or fan-favorite gestures and chants. In 2013, the team began discussions with the American Indian Community Working Group. This led to invitations for Cheyenne spiritual and ceremonial leaders to take part at some games. It wasn't until 2020 — when the Washington team first decided to change their name — that the Chiefs issued a ban on fans donning tribal headdresses, war paint and clothing at Arrowhead Stadium.
They also changed the tomahawk “chop” with cheerleaders using a closed fist instead of an open palm. Native American organizations in Kansas City at the time called the changes “laughable.”
The franchise has also made a point to participate in American Indian Heritage Month, which is in November. Most recently, they posted a video with long snapper James Winchester, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, and center Creed Humphrey, who is from the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
This Super Bowl protest is happening in a state where a quarter of the land belongs to Native Americans. The NFL has been emphasizing its collaborations with Native and Indigenous people based in Arizona.
Lucinda Hinojos, who was born in Glendale and is of Apache and Yaqui descent, became the first Native and Chicana artist to partner with the NFL. Her painting is featured on all Super Bowl tickets and throughout the NFL Experience. Colin Denny, a University of Arizona researcher and a member of the Navajo Nation, has been chosen to perform “America the Beautiful" during the game's pre-show. Denny, who is deaf, will utilize both American Sign Language and North American Indian Sign Language.
Native Americans renew protests of Kansas City Chiefs mascot ahead of Super Bowl LVII
FILE- Kansas City Chiefs fans do the Tomahawk Chop during an AFC West game between the Los Angeles Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs in 2019 at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, MO. (Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
PHOENIX - Two years ago as the Kansas City Chiefs were vying for a second consecutive Super Bowl victory in Tampa, Florida, there was one group outside Raymond James Stadium picketing their appearance.
Native American protesters were calling for the Chiefs to drop their name, logo and their trademark "war chant" where fans make a chopping-hand gesture mimicking the Native American tomahawk. They even hired a plane to fly around the area. Before game day, there were two online petitions and billboards of protest erected in Kansas City.
Now as the Chiefs return to Super Bowl Sunday for the first time in two years in Arizona, protesters will be there again.
Arizona to Rally Against Native Mascots is planning to demonstrate outside State Farm Stadium in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale. They will be joined at a news conference Thursday afternoon in Phoenix by members of Kansas City Native advocacy groups.
Fights against appropriation of tribal cultures and images have been going on for decades — not just with the Chiefs but with multiple teams across different sports. Native Americans say using iconography and words with Native connotations demeans them and perpetuates racist stereotypes.
Supporters have felt more emboldened in the last few years. A lot of teams previously countered that the mascots were meant to show tribes respect. But the racial reckoning and protests of 2020 after the murder of George Floyd compelled some franchises to do some soul-searching.
The Cleveland Indians baseball team officially changed to the Guardians in November 2021. They also axed Chief Wahoo, a logo which was a caricature of an Indian American.
It was a year ago this month that the Washington Football Team was anointed the Commanders. That move came after 18 months of pressure to drop the Redskins, which was seen as a racial slur.
The Chiefs have made efforts to address concerns about cultural insensitivities going back a decade but always stop short of altering their name or fan-favorite gestures and chants. In 2013, the team began discussions with the American Indian Community Working Group.
This led to invitations for Cheyenne spiritual and ceremonial leaders to take part at some games. It wasn't until 2020 — when the Washington team first decided to change their name — that the Chiefs issued a ban on fans donning tribal headdresses, war paint and clothing at Arrowhead Stadium.
They also changed the tomahawk "chop" with cheerleaders using a closed fist instead of an open palm. Native American organizations in Kansas City at the time called the changes "laughable."
The franchise has also made a point to participate in American Indian Heritage Month, which is in November. Most recently, they posted a video with long snapper James Winchester, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, and center Creed Humphrey, who is from the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
This Super Bowl protest is happening in a state where a quarter of the land belongs to Native Americans. The NFL has been emphasizing its collaborations with Native and Indigenous people based in Arizona.
Lucinda Hinojos, who was born in Glendale and is of Apache and Yaqui descent, became the first Native and Chicana artist to partner with the NFL.
Her painting is featured on all Super Bowl tickets and throughout the NFL Experience. Colin Denny, a University of Arizona researcher and a member of the Navajo Nation, has been chosen to perform "America the Beautiful" during the game's pre-show. Denny, who is deaf, will utilize both American Sign Language and North American Indian Sign Language.
Name Scrutiny Extends From Redskins To Chiefs, But Kansas City’s Mascot Has A Different Origin Story
A view of the Kansas City Chiefs end zone is seen at Arrowhead Stadium in action during an NFL game . [+] between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs on Sept. 23, 2018. (Photo by Robin Alam/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
With Washington’s NFL team officially changing its nickname from the Redskins, Kansas City’s team name of the Chiefs has come under scrutiny.
That name, however, was not derived from Native Americans. The Chiefs were named after former Kansas City mayor H. Roe Bartle, who helped the city land a pro football team in the early 1960s.
The franchise, of course, has adopted Native American themes since then. Fans — some dressed in Native American attire — do the tomahawk chop in Arrowhead Stadium while Warpaint the horse gallops after touchdowns.
One can make a strong case that those franchise staples offensively depict Native Americans as “savages” and should be changed.
The mere nickname, though, has more innocuous roots. According to the Chiefs media guide, the Chiefs moniker was selected in honor of Bartle, who helped convince Lamar Hunt to move the Dallas Texans to Kansas City, as part of a name-the-team contest.
Bartle, who was nearing the end of his second and final term as mayor when he persuaded Hunt, had tried to land pro football in Kansas City at least two other times during the AFL days.
The mayor was nicknamed “the Chief” not only because of his 6-3, 300-pound-plus girth, but also his work with the Boy Scouts of America.
After serving in the military during World War I and getting his law degree from the University of Chattanooga, Bartle started as a scout executive in Wyoming, following a training session in Kansas City. The number of scouts in his Wyoming area grew tenfold.
MORE FOR YOUUkrainian Sources: We Just Shot Down Two Of Russia’s Best Command Planes
Tesla Price Cuts, Used Cars Flood Market With Affordable Model 3, Model Y
‘True Detective: Night Country’ Episode 1 Review — Such A Disappointing Premiere
After Bartle and Hunt initially met in Dallas, only Bartle and his chauffeur knew that Hunt was scouting the Kansas City location because he didn’t want to compete with the Dallas Cowboys for fans.
Hunt surreptitiously checked into Kansas City’s Muehlebach Hotel under an assumed name, and when Bartle had to introduce him, he called him “Mr. Lamar,” according to Matt Fulks’ 100 Things Chiefs Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.
(Disclosure: I am an editor at Triumph Books, the publisher of 100 Things Chiefs Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.)
Bartle’s two four-year, mayoral terms ended in 1963. Hunt officially announced his team was moving from Dallas to Kansas City that year, and the Chiefs name was established in May.
Almost 60 years later, a letter signed by 87 investors and shareholders with a total worth of about $620 billion was sent to sponsors FedEx FDX , PepsiCo PEP and Nike NKE , asking them to stop doing business with the Redskins unless the team changed its name.
During the Chiefs’ franchise history, their Native American traditions have come under scrutiny as well.
In 1992 the team stopped playing the tomahawk chop war chant at its home games. Fans, however, still sang the tune and did the arm motion before the franchise reinstituted it shortly thereafter.
Vahe Gregorian, the columnist for The Kansas City Star, suggested rebranding the Chiefs name as a way to memorialize the six Kansas City firefighters who died in an explosion in 1988.
And the City of Fountains actually has a prominent fountain located at the south end of Penn Valley Park, which features two bronze sculptures of firefighters.
Less than two miles from that fountain is Bartle Hall. The major convention center in downtown Kansas City, Mo. is named in honor of the Chief who passed away on May 9, 1974.
Certain African cultures also use methods such as astrology, dream interpretation, and reading of natural signs, such as animal behavior or weather patterns, as forms of divination. These practices are deeply ingrained in African societies, often playing a role in decision-making processes, conflict resolution, healing, and spiritual growth. It is important to note that African divination practices vary greatly across different regions and cultures within the continent. Each community may have its own unique methods, rituals, and beliefs regarding divination. However, the underlying concept of seeking supernatural guidance and understanding remains prevalent across these diverse practices. Overall, African divination is a multifaceted and ancient practice that continues to hold significance and reverence in many African societies. It serves as a means of connecting with the spiritual realm, seeking wisdom, and navigating life's challenges and uncertainties..
Reviews for "African divination and its role in community building: PDF resources for social cohesion"
1. Name: Laura M.
Rating: 2/5
Review: I was expecting "African divination in pdf" to provide a comprehensive guide on African divination practices, but I was left disappointed. The content felt scattered and poorly organized, making it difficult to follow along. Additionally, the information provided lacked depth and was overly generalized. I was hoping for a more detailed exploration of the various divination methods used in different African cultures, but this book barely scratched the surface. Overall, I would not recommend this PDF for anyone looking to truly understand African divination.
2. Name: James T.
Rating: 1/5
Review: I found "African divination in pdf" to be very underwhelming. The information provided was basic and lacked any unique insights into the world of African divination. It felt more like a collection of random facts than a comprehensive guide. The formatting of the PDF was also problematic, with many typos and grammatical errors throughout. I was hoping to gain a deeper understanding of African divination, but this PDF failed to deliver. Save your money and look for a more reputable source if you're truly interested in learning about this topic.
3. Name: Sarah K.
Rating: 2/5
Review: "African divination in pdf" fell short of my expectations. The content was dry and uninspiring, making it a struggle to get through each chapter. The lack of illustrations or visual aids also made it difficult to visualize the divination practices being described. I was hoping for a more engaging and informative read, but this PDF left much to be desired. If you're looking for an in-depth exploration of African divination, I would recommend seeking out alternative resources.
4. Name: John P.
Rating: 2/5
Review: I found "African divination in pdf" to be quite disappointing. The information provided was too basic and lacked the depth that I was seeking. The author seemed to generalize African divination practices without delving into the unique nuances of each culture. The lack of references or citations also made it difficult to verify the accuracy of the information presented. Overall, I would not recommend this PDF for someone looking for a comprehensive and well-researched guide on African divination.