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A Long Island school district may get to keep a shortened version of its “Thunderbirds” team name that New York State seemed ...
The Texas State Board of Education on Friday renewed an elective course that teaches high school students about the history and cultures of Indigenous peoples, overcoming criticism from some ...
In Berkeley, on and off the UC campus, Indigenous history gets glossed over along with the school's scandalous role in its ...
State legislators are trying once again to ban Native American mascots in Massachusetts high schools. Cape Cod has made ...
A monument to an English-speaking and Christian Indigenous man, born in 1620, is planned in Lakeville. Some Mashpee Wampanoag ...
When Slater Mill opened in 1793, it signaled the eventual demise of river herring and other migratory fish in the Blackstone ...
The resolution renames the lakes after three tribes and their Native words for “sister” – NʉmʉNahmi Lake (Comanche Nahmi Lake ...
A town at odds with state policy. New York has been trying to rid schools of Native American mascots going back more than two decades to the administration of Republican Gov. George Pataki, and in ...
The town has refused to comply with a state mandate to retire Native American sports names and mascots. “There was no tribe east of the Mississippi that ever wore a headdress — ever,” said ...
A few minutes drive away, next to the town’s post office, a statue of a Native American figure wearing a flowing headdress towers over those depicting a buffalo, a horse and a totem pole.