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 ...

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 ...

“We love it. Who wouldn’t?” said Eunice Goodstar Woman Davidson, founder of the Native American Guardian Association. Activists have fought hard to remove the names and logos of Native Americans from ...

Michigan-headquartered Carhartt recently collaborated with Native American designer Bethany Yellowtail on a collection filled with culture. While several items have sold fast, there are still a few ...

More school districts will consider dropping Native American-themed mascots in response to directives by leaders in two states—Kansas and New York. Such mascot changes follow decades of nationwide ...

State Education Department issues memo requiring 60 school districts in New York to end the use of symbols by end of year. The decision will have an impact on 12 schools in the Capital Region.

For a while now, the State Education Department has recommended high schools in New York to drop the use of Native American mascots, team names and logos. But today, that recommendation is a directive ...

Early on Wednesday, the Minnesota Senate passed the Education Finance bill. The bill includes a provision prohibiting the use of Native American symbols or names as mascots unless all 11 Minnesota ...

The New York State Education Department has effectively banned the use of most Native American mascots for public schools in the state. Schools must be in compliance by the end of the 2022-23 school ...

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 ...

There is a style of petroglyphs or rock writing that is not Native American. Neither is it historic inscriptions left by Westward-moving pioneers. It is a coded set of symbols called Western Messaging ...