Canal Winchester High School's softball dugout, photographed on July 15, 2025. Canal Winchester is one of more than 20 Ohio high schools with the team name "Indians." (Photo by Megan Henry, Ohio ...

A state rep, whose district includes Philadelphia, is reintroducing legislation for the fifth time to ban Native American ...

The contentious political issue over the use of race-based school logos and mascots has emerged central to a lawsuit settlement in Pennsylvania and the focus of one lawmaker’s legislative plans. The ...

As high school sports seasons start again, some fans may be dismayed to see that teams across Wisconsin still use Native American race-based mascots and logos. For decades, Indigenous leaders and ...

DENVER — The Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs met with six school districts on Friday to discuss the districts' progress towards removing Native American mascots. In 2021, Governor Jared Polis ...

A state bill being debated in the Legislature could ban all Native American mascots. The Dartmouth Indians logo would be affected, although voters in town agreed to keep it in 2022. The bill would ...

In mid-June, the Trump administration reignited the debate over Native American mascots when it announced an investigation into New York State’s mascot ban. Since a 2023 decision by the state’s Board ...

For many Native Americans, the decision to replace the former names of Washington’s NFL team and Cleveland’s MLB team was not just symbolic. It was a matter of dignity, safety and cultural survival.

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Introduction, Imagined Indians, social identities, and activism / C. Richard King and Charles Fruehling Springwood -- Chief Bill Orange and the Saltine Warrior : a cultural history of Indian symbols ...

BOHEMIA, N.Y. — A school district in New York City's suburbs agreed this week to change its “Thunderbirds” nickname to simply the “T-Birds” in order to comply with the state’s mandate to retire all ...

President Donald Trump is threatening to hold up a new stadium deal if Washington’s NFL team did not restore its name to a racial slur, despite decades of psychological research showing the negative ...