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In recognition of the responsibility of higher education to eliminate behaviors that creates a hostile environment for education, in 2005 the NCAA initiated a policy against "hostile and abusive" names and mascots that led to the change of many derived from Native American culture, with the exception of those that established an agreement with ...
Hononegah Community High School, Rockton, Illinois - A non-native cheerleader's performance as "Princess Hononegah" has led to competing online petitions by students regarding the elimination or retention of the school mascot; [161] and a state legislator's proposal to amend the Illinois Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act to require the ...
A SDSU professor of American Indian Studies states that the mascot teaches the mistaken idea that Aztecs were a local tribe rather than living in Mexico 1,000 miles from San Diego. [20] In April 2017, the university's Associated Students council rejected a resolution to retire the mascot introduced by the Native American Student Association. [21]
What’s at stake with team names like the Redskins? For Native teens, it means lower self-esteem. For whites, it’s the opposite. Looking at the research into mascots with Stephanie Fryberg.
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Proposed bills S.245 in the Senate and H.477 in the House state that no public school uses an athletic team name, logo, or mascot which names, refers to, represents, or is associated with Native ...
Native American, but not indigenous, removed from the list: Frölunda Indians Elitserien; Should be restored if the article were renamed (I notice that the ethnic group team name article has a few other European teams with Native American names) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.78.97.2 21:43, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Four school districts in Connecticut will forgo state tribal funding to keep their Native American mascots, nicknames, and branding. (Photo by Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty ...