Mattel has bungled its rollout of a new Barbie doll honoring the late Native American Chief Wilma Mankiller by using a symbol that misspells “Cherokee” as “Chicken.” Mattel 6 ...

Mankiller, whose likeness is on a U.S. quarter issued in 2021, is the second Native American woman honored with a Barbie doll. Famed aviator Bessie Coleman, who was of Black and Cherokee ancestry ...

The Cherokee Nation, one of the largest tribes in the U.S., estimates that there remain only 2,000 people for whom Cherokee is their first language, and most of them are over the age of 70.

It's also ironic that the adoption of Native symbols by civic organizations often dates back to a time when Native American children were being taken from reservations and sent to boarding schools ...

Back in 2001, former Commissioner Richard P. Mills issued a memo stating “conclud[ing] that the use of Native American symbols or depictions as mascots can become a barrier to building a safe ...

Mankiller, whose likeness is on a U.S. quarter issued in 2021, is the second Native American woman honored with a Barbie doll. Famed aviator Bessie Coleman, who was of Black and Cherokee ancestry ...