Opinion: 'Rudy' and 'Hoosiers' screenwriter heads groundbreaking project about Indigenous football stars

You may not know the name Ray Halbritter, but you should, because what he's doing now is one of the most important and groundbreaking things in sports and beyond.

What Halbritter's done centers around a book, positive representation of Indigenous people, the screenwriter for two of the most beloved sports movies of all time, and a group of Indigenous football stars that once dominated the sport.

Halbritter is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the Nation Representative of the Oneida Indian Nation. For almost a decade, he was one of the leading voices in fighting Indigenous people being used as sports mascots. His stubborn efforts, along with others, is a big reason why the Washington Football Team stopped using its racist nickname.