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 ...
it represented what many consider to be an important step in the ongoing controversy over the use of Native American symbols as American university sports teams' mascots. "It seemed about time," ...
Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Suzan Shown Harjo was told by a non-Native person that if it wasn’t for sports mascots then Native Americans wouldn’t even be thought of by them.
Local Native American leaders dispute assertions the mascots are a form of tribute ... Native American imagery is not only ingrained on sports jerseys but also in a mural next to a bagel shop ...
As the country debates racist symbolism in monuments, sports, and commercial ... To read more on the impact of Native American team names and mascots, see Kevin Gover’s commentary “Dear ...
NEW YORK -- Professional and collegiate sports teams have been pressured ... Calling it long overdue, the use of Native American mascots, team names and logos in public schools is now banned ...
The Michigan Board of Education adopted a resolution in 2003 that supports the elimination of Native American descriptors and mascots by all Michigan schools. The resolution states in part “that ...