To quote my better half every time Parkey misses: “Hey Haslams, you own a championship soccer team, for goodness’ sake!” Language edited.
I think Spiders or Naps is probably are the only acceptable alternatives that won't be irretrievably stupid.
On naming the Cleveland Baseball team, I would work with a local Native American tribe (prolly Erie or Iroquois) and ask them to propose a name that they would consider an honor. I'd also ask to have a museum/education center built on site to educate the current fans about the history of the indigenous people who were here first. Maybe they would become the Erie tribe word for warrior, or eagle, or diarrhea. Who cares. If they want nothing to do with Baseball club respect that, and name the club after an animal. Two personal let peeves of mine is 1) when us 'white people' act upset at a potential perceived slight against someone else. My grandmother was Blackfoot Indian, she had a lot of Blackfoot friends. I loved baseball and would talk about it all the time with them. Not once, was ever brought up that the name or caricature mascot was offensive. But boy oh boy ad nauseum have my white friends enlighten to the atrocities of chief wa-hoo. And the second thing that bugs me the destruction of our history. Really bad stuff happened in history, don't get rid of those warts, educate people on the what's and why's it happen; so we don't repeat those mistakes. Acknowledge the good and bad our ancestors did, and ask how can we do it better?
The thing that always bugged me was Chief Wahoo. Even as a kid, long before these PC days, I thought that was a stupid logo. Large nose, cheesy toothy smile, “sweatband” strap with one feather. And the earlier renditions were much worse!! Why not an arrowhead or a spear or a tomahawk instead? Even now, not sure even “Cleveland Tribe” would be ok. Sounds like they want to move away from anything Indians altogether. Agree with the education and the reckoning with historical wrongs.
Well, some I suppose could argue that. But I wasn't trying to make that point. I just personally thought Chief Wahoo made for a stupid logo even 35 years ago. And that the previous versions were worse. And that those other logo ideas would look better. Now, if you're asking (and I assuming you are) if merely doing away with caricatures is all we need to do, then no, I don't think moving from a rendering of a Native American (or First Nations people, which I think is a more fitting term) to a physical item for a logo is an acceptable change.
Most were wiped out by the Iroquois, the rest were absorbed by the Iroquois Nation. Numerous Iroquois claim a "duel like citizenship", stating their original tribe and adopted tribe. If you wanted your council to just be Erie Survivors in Iroquois I think that can be done, or if that isn't a large enough representation then chose the Nation. The point was talk to the First Americans, and ask if there is a way to honor them with naming. If not move onto something not human.