In 1937, Phoenix was a small city isolated in the middle of the Arizona desert with a population of less than 50,000 people who, like the rest of the nation, were struggling to recover from the Great ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State Education Department put out a directive to all school districts across the state to not use Native American symbols or mascots are part of their school name, mascots ...

For years it has been the University of Illinois mascot, then this week Niles West High School’s mascot. Sooner or later the ultimate absurdity regarding the so-called insulted Native Americans had to ...

Students and a Spokane Public Schools administration member pause in the North Central High School hallway around the statue of a Native American during the Pledge of Allegiance on the first day of in ...

Three symbols of native America - the bison, the eagle, and the Native Americans themselves - have been endangered during recent decades. But, says commentator Harlan McKosato all three are making a ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Many Native Americans and other indigenous people gathered on the steps of the State Capitol Saturday morning to fight against a resolution in the Utah Legislature that would ...

In the center of Ivy Pete’s high school’s office sits a glass case caging two Native American mascots in tribal dress. To her, they do not represent a real group of humans or a culture. They symbolize ...

House Bill 1356 passed the House 92-5 Spokane-area Democrats Marcus Riccelli and Timm Ormsby and Republicans Jenny Graham, Mike Volz, Mary Dye, Joel Kretz, Jacquelin Maycumber and Joe Schmick voted in ...

KENNEWICK — Fifty years ago, Kennewick and Yakama tribal officials stood side-by-side as they opened Kamiakin High School. Now school district officials are putting together a presentation to show how ...

The damaging effects of Native appropriation in sports have been well documented. In 2005, the American Psychological Association published a resolution calling for the retirement of mascots, symbols ...

SCOTCH PLAINS-- A Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School student has started an online petition calling on the principal to rid the school -- whose mascot is the Raiders -- of all ties to Native American ...