Background
As of 2014, Blackhorse is a psychiatric social worker on the Navajo Reservation, where she grew up.
As of 2014, Blackhorse is a psychiatric social worker on the Navajo Reservation, where she grew up.
While a student at the University of Kansas, she attended a game between the Washington Redskins and the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium and reported:.
She is the lead plaintiff in
She has also worked at Arizona State Hospital. Blackhorse is the lead plaintiff in, which seeks to revoke trademark protection of the term "Washington Redskins". The USPTO rejected an application to register "Redskins Hog Rinds" because it "consists of or includes matter which may disparage or bring into contempt or disrepute persons, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols".
Since 1992, the USPTO has rejected eleven applications for other trademarks that included the word redskins, based on the same reasons.
Some of the applications were made by Pro-Football, Incorporated., including "Washington Redskins Cheerleaders". On June 18, 2014, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) voted to cancel the six trademarks held by the team in a two to one decision that held that the term "redskins" is disparaging to a "substantial composite of Native Americans", and this is demonstrated "by the near complete drop-off in usage of "redskins" as a reference to Native Americans beginning in the 1960s." In a press release the trademark attorney for the team stated that they were confident that they would once again prevail on appeal, and that today"s decision will make no difference in the continued use of the Redskins name.
Plaintiff Amanda Blackhorse said in an interview, "We’ve been through this process for eight years now. We will continue to fight.
And, you know, this is not the end for us.".