Growing up in Illinois, I’ve flip-flopped a few times on how I feel about the Blackhawks logo & mascot – which ultimately, means very little as a non-Native American.

• I grew up miles from Black Hawk’s birthplace, so seeing the likeness of him was not at all uncommon – there’s a community college, banking system, shopping plaza & state historic site and museum using his name (The NBA’s Atlanta Hawks originally started in the area and were the Tri-Cities Blackhawks). On Thanksgiving, our family would rent out a cabin within Black Hawk State Historic Site to have our large family dinner – was named Singing Bird Lodge, which was Black Hawk’s wife.
• Black Hawk actually existed, his depiction on the front of the sweaters seems fairly accurate to other media of him (thus, not a caricature), he was an actual Sauk chief of a military brigade. He (rightfully) fought against the US on several occasions to protect his nation’s land.
• AFAIK, there’s no tomahawk chop or white guys cos-playing as Black Hawk in an official capacity or “war chants” at Blackhawk games. Again, saying all of this as a white guy, so I’ll very easily STUF if anyone with any authority on the subject says so, but this feels very different than the Washington football team, Cleveland baseball team, Atlanta baseball team, University of Illinois mascot & countless other generic caricatures.
• FSU, I believe, has the blessing of the Seminole nation to use their likeness (though the chant still seems problematic to me) – Black Hawk died ~200 years ago, so the hockey team can’t really get his approval to use his likeness.
• Per Wikipedia, the original founder of the team named them after the battalion he was in during WWI – the “Black Hawk Division” – which was named for the person.

Having said all of that, I do like that these uniforms, and almost all Chicago uniforms, have changed very little over time.