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All teams with an Native American mascot should be banned. For many professional sports teams, fans dress up as Native Americans without really knowing how they are affecting a culture. A cartoon from ...
A Native American group is pleased with the U.S. Department of Education’s decision to refer an investigation into New York ...
"It looks like a cartoon character ... In Georgia, 15 public schools use some tie to Native American Heritage in their mascots. Rep. Schofield also sponsored a resolution recognizing Indigenous ...
Surely there’s a way to erase the cartoon Indian and draw more accurate ... announced that all districts must stop using Native American mascots by the end of the school year.
CNY school board leader speaks out against changing mascot offensive to Native Americans “Those are ... “We know the stereotypes and we know the cartoon figures and we know all that.
Those objections have prompted efforts to do away with Native American mascot names in several states, with proposals introduced in at least 21 states, according to the National Congress of ...
the National Congress of American Indians, has worked to challenge the use of Native imagery in logos and mascots. The organization maintains a database tracking Native mascots and has found that ...
Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share Earlier this month, the Illinois House passed legislation — House Bill 1237 — that would phase out the use of Native American-based mascots and logos in our state ...
Education Secretary Linda McMahon says her agency found that New York’s ban on tribal themed mascots in public schools discriminates against Native Americans.
The New York Board of Regents is expected to approve a policy barring school nicknames like “the Warriors.” A provision allows their use if a tribal nation endorses them. The Salamanca High ...
WUNC's Will Michaels spoke with Mary Ann Jacobs, chair of the American Indian Studies department at UNC-Pembroke, about the effort to ban Native mascots. This conversation has been lightly edited ...
"It looks like a cartoon character ... In Georgia, 15 public schools use some tie to Native American Heritage in their mascots. Rep. Schofield also sponsored a resolution recognizing Indigenous ...