The Braves declined to provide a statement. The tomahawk chop has been a part of Braves home games since 1991, spreading to the team’s fans from Florida State when FSU alum Deion Sanders played for the Braves. It has drawn criticism through the decades, particularly during the division series against the Cardinals.

Group co-founder Alicia Norris described the chop as “extremely disrespectful,” saying it “conjures up images of Native Americans, indigenous people as savages.”

Despite Native American and national news media statements that they find the practices to be racist, the Chiefs continue many of the behaviors of other teams with Native American names, including fans wearing headdresses and warpaint, doing the tomahawk chop, and banging a drum.

With Chiefs in second straight Super Bowl, tomahawk chop controversy heats up. Pressure is mounting for the Super Bowl-bound Chiefs to abandon a popular tradition in which fans break into a ‘war chant’ while making a chopping hand motion designed to mimic the Native American tomahawk. AP/Copyright The Associated Press.

The Kansas City Chiefs first heard it when the Northwest Missouri State band, directed by 1969 FSU graduate Al Sergel, performed the chant while the players were warming up for a game against San Diego.

Usage of the tomahawk chop has led to complaints that it made fun of Native American culture. It also was criticized for being a reference to the former practice of scalping. Shortly after the Atlanta Braves adopted it, there were a number of calls from Native Americans for Braves fans to stop doing the tomahawk chop.

Gregorian chant, monophonic, or unison, liturgical music of the Roman Catholic Church, used to accompany the text of the mass and the canonical hours, or divine office. Gregorian chant is named after St. Gregory I, during whose papacy (590–604) it was collected and codified.

Gregorian chant is also called plainchant. It is music that is monophonic, which means a melody of one note at a time. Gregorian chant began during the Middle Ages in Europe, which refers to the period from about the 5th century to the 15th century. It was music of the Catholic Church, so it was ceremonial in purpose.

Gregorian chant, the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song of the western Roman Catholic Church. Gregorian mass. Brotherhood of Saint Gregory, a community of friars within the Anglican Communion. The community’s members, known as “Gregorians”, include clergy and laymen …

They certainly don’t tour. They are monks, if you haven’t already guessed, who live and worship in a secluded Benedictine monastery near the town of Burgos in northern Spain. They are also, much to nearly everyone’s surprise, international recording stars with a hit record.

1 : of or relating to Pope Gregory I. 2 : of, relating to, or having the characteristics of Gregorian chant. Gregorian. adjective (3)

Gregorian calendar

The Gregorian calendar

AD 1 (I), 1 AD or 1 CE is the epoch year for the Anno Domini calendar era. It was the first year of the Common Era (CE), of the 1st millennium and of the 1st century. The preceding year is 1 BC; there is no year 0 in this numbering scheme. The Anno Domini dating system was devised in AD 525 by Dionysius Exiguus.

Eastern Orthodox Church

The Hebrew calendar

Since the Gregorian calendar accounted more accurately for leap years, it was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar by 1752. To correct this discrepancy and align all dates, 11 days had to be dropped when the switch was made.