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Though mascots and names may seem trivial today, they are rooted in a legacy of assimilationist policies that reduced Indigenous cultures to simplified, non-threatening images for consumption. [1] The practice of deriving sports team names, imagery, and mascots from Indigenous peoples of North America is a significant phenomenon in the United ...
A SDSU professor of American Indian Studies states that the mascot teaches the mistaken idea that Aztecs were a local tribe rather than living in Mexico 1,000 miles from San Diego. [20] In April 2017, the university's Associated Students council rejected a resolution to retire the mascot introduced by the Native American Student Association. [21]
However Oregon State law allows schools to retain their Native American mascots with the consent of a local tribe, which Roseburg has with the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians. [174] Roxborough High School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Rural Retreat High School, Rural Retreat, Virginia; Russellville High School, Russellville, Missouri
"Imagining the Indian" filmmakers and activists discuss the harmful effects of mascots on the Native community. Ahead of Super Bowl, filmmakers challenge 'honor' of Kansas City Chiefs name, Native ...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) passed a resolution calling for the end of the use of Native American names, images, and mascots in 1999. [56] In 2001, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released an advisory opinion calling for an end to the use of Native American images and team names by non-Native ...
Proposed bills S.245 in the Senate and H.477 in the House state that no public school uses an athletic team name, logo, or mascot which names, refers to, represents, or is associated with Native ...
[1] Fourteen schools either removed all references to Native American culture or were deemed not to have references to Native American culture as part of their athletics programs. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Subsequently, 19 teams were cited as having potentially "hostile or abusive" names, mascots, or images, that would be banned from displaying them during ...
Maine passed a ban on Native American-related mascots in 2019, and states including Oregon, California and Massachusetts have passed similar measures, citing the hostile nature of certain names ...