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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Senate Bill 159, to prohibit school districts from using certain mascots and team names that are derogatory toward Native American peoples or culture. He brought similar bills in 2016 , 2020 and 2022
The mascot at Nokomis High School has been the Redskins since a 1920 vote among the town's voters. ... Requiring Illinois schools to do away with Native American mascots and logos has been an ...
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 ...
To date, Maine is the only state to completely ban Native American-themed mascots. [126] The New York State Education Department (NYSED) issued a memo in November 2022 requiring schools with a Native American mascot to find a replacement by the end of the 2022–23 school year.
William Urban believes the Illinois legislature is trying to outdo itself in eradicating any indications that Native Americans ever lived in the state. Letter: High school mascots should be able ...