A few months after Emily Applegate started working for the Washington Redskins in 2014, she settled into a daily routine: She would meet a female co-worker in the bathroom during their lunch breaks, she said, to commiserate and cry about the frequent sexual harassment and verbal abuse they endured.

In the minutes after Washington's NFL team announced Monday morning that it would be retiring its Redskins name and logo, some Native American leaders across the country quietly celebrated.