The Chicago Blackhawks have a well-earned reputation as one of the more appalling franchises in the NHL.
Between Patrick Kane’s murky past, a sexual assault scandal involving former video coordinator Brad Aldrich, and Bobby Hull being potentially the worst human being on the planet, Chicago hasn’t exactly earned the benefit of the doubt from fans.
Now a new lawsuit alleges the organization from former consultant Nina Sanders makes even more alarming allegations.
Sanders claims that the organization lied to her about changing its logo, a caricature of a Native American from the Blackhawk tribe, in order to convince her to help strengthen ties with the local Native community.
“Sanders filed the suit in Circuit Court of Cook County on Tuesday,” Margaret Fleming of Front Office Sports reports. She claimed that she orchestrated meetings between the team and the tribe, and, while she initially believed and communicated that the team intended to change its logo, the franchise later changed course and got approval through a new resolution from the tribe to keep using it. The team also gave the tribe $100,000 in grant funding and a $250,000 decommissioned Black Hawk helicopter.
Sanders’s claims that because Blackhawks CEO Danny Wirtz’s initially promised to change the logo, buy land for the tribe, and create positions for Native Americans. She states that she only took the consulting position due to those promises.
None of those promises were fulfilled, according to the lawsuit.
Sanders claims she was pushed out of the organization. While the Blackhawks state that she opted not to renew her contract.
“I built relationships with my own trusted native colleagues,” Sanders told CBS Chicago, “and once they figured out how to do it, they pushed me out.”
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