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Prompted by the concerns of Native Americans, the Madison Metropolitan School District in Wisconsin has implemented a policy banning student clothing having "words, pictures, or caricatures based on negative stereotypes of a specific gender, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation or disability", which would ban all sports apparel ...
In recognition of the responsibility of higher education to eliminate behaviors that creates a hostile environment for education, in 2005 the NCAA initiated a policy against "hostile and abusive" names and mascots that led to the change of many derived from Native American culture, with the exception of those that established an agreement with ...
Hononegah Community High School, Rockton, Illinois - A non-native cheerleader's performance as "Princess Hononegah" has led to competing online petitions by students regarding the elimination or retention of the school mascot; [161] and a state legislator's proposal to amend the Illinois Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act to require the ...
The language this session is contained in House Bill 5617, which would prohibit schools already with Native American names, logos and mascots from using them starting in the 2027-2028 school year ...
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]
Native American mascots being reviewed include the "Big Reds" from Port Huron High School and the "Little Chiefs" from Michigamme Elementary.
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