A skill that would be useful for hockey players would be tackling. Very useful in hockey.
This is a complicated question but the common thinking that sports teams, being profit making ventures that are largely controlled by white men, are racist for appropriating Native American imagery for the profit of the very people who subjugated the Native Americans historically.
Honestly, I think the United States would eventually look the same as it does now. If they had not bought the land, they likely would have gone to war for it. It is very unlikely that they would have let it stay there as part of France or an independent country, both because of Manifest Destiny and for national security.
The Vietcong formed to resist the government.
