After years of unsuccessfully persuading some North Carolina schools to drop their American Indian mascots, a state lawmaker is now trying to make the change through the legislative power of the state ...

In North Carolina, 34 public schools have American Indian logos or mascots. That’s according to the State Advisory Council on Indian Education. Since 2002, the council has called for public schools to ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — There is a growing effort to ban the use of American Indian mascots in North Carolina’s public schools. State lawmakers are currently reviewing House Bill 655, a proposal aimed at ...

Savage Media, created by a group of Native American students at Dartmouth College, published a video this week to call for an end to Native American mascots. Through the delivery of a poem, Preston ...

The Upper Sioux Community approved an exemption allowing the Benson, Minnesota, school district to maintain its American Indian mascot and logo. The Benson School District will continue to use the ...

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (AP) — As a high school hockey player, Adam Drexler wore his Massapequa Chiefs jersey with pride. But as the Chickasaw Nation member grew up and learned about his Indigenous roots, he ...

ROCHESTER — Prairie Island Indian Community has agreed to allow Dakota Middle School to continue using the Bison as its mascot, following an appeal from the school district. The school had been faced ...

This is part one of a two-part story. Next week’s issue will focus on the argument for keeping the Indian mascot. Across the country, names and images of Native Americans are being removed from sports ...