Cleveland MLB Team Name to Change from 'Indians' to 'Guardians'

CLEVELAND - The Cleveland Major Leaugue Baseball team announced on Friday it will drop the "Indians" name after over a 100 years at the end of the current baseball season. The team will be named the Cleveland Guardians next season.

The Cleveland MLB franchise announced the name change with a video on Twitter narrated by actor Tom Hanks.

The fight to have the "Indians" name dropped by the team began over 50 years ago by the Cleveland American Indian Movement (AIM) in response to the wishes of the local Native community, elders and leaders in the Nations, according the organization's website.

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