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Many believed that the team's popularity came from its usage of Native American imagery in the name, so the Cleveland organization desired to also adopt a Native American name. [38] The original Chief Wahoo logo from 1947 was a yellow-faced caricature of a Native American with an enlarged nose. [39]
[120] [121] [122] A 2012 study by researchers at Colorado State University surveyed 1399 students in 33 schools in 11 US states and found that 52.8% of all Native American 8th-graders and 67.5% of all Native American 12th-graders had experimented with alcohol, compared with 13.8% and 41.1% of non-Native students in the same schools.
Don Lawrence Coyhis (born August 16, 1943) is an alcohol and addiction recovery counselor known for designing treatment programs primarily for Native Americans.He is the founder and president of White Bison, Inc., a non-profit charitable organization devoted to assisting Native Americans who are affected by substance use disorders.
November is Native American Heritage Month. Here's a list of sites to learn more about Native American culture in the Buckeye State.
A rust belt town with growing pains. Springfield has been an industrial town since the late 1800s, but the city's median income dropped between 1999 and 2014 when manufacturing jobs declined in ...
Don L. Coyhis and William L. White, Alcohol Problems in Native America: The Untold Story of Resistance and Recovery, Colorado Springs, CO: Coyhis Publishing & Consulting, Inc., 2006 Archived September 26, 2021, at the Wayback Machine ISBN 1-59975-229-8 Examines the history of alcohol and Native Americans, including Native American temperance ...
On June 10th DON'T raise a glass in celebration of Alcoholics Anonymous' 80th anniversary. The international mutual aid fellowship, commonly referred to as AA, was unofficially founded on June ...
Robert Roche, also known as Bob Roche and Rob Roche, is an activist for Native American civil rights. He is perhaps best known for being one of several prominent American Indians to spearhead the movement against the use of Native American imagery as sports mascots.