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 ...

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 ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Everybody wants to be a Cheyenne Mountain Indian, says student and tennis player Grace Cossin. As she points out, the 1,255-pupil school, on the west side of town in Cheyenne ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — For months, a new state law has been in effect that bans public schools from using certain Native American mascots on school grounds. Just weeks ahead of the law's Dec. 31 deadline, ...

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 ...

KILLINGLY - A tribal council has reiterated its opposition to all uses of Native American sports and mascot imagery, paving the way for the elimination of Killingly High School Redmen symbols. In a ...