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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 ...
In a 2008 journal article "Of Warrior Chiefs and Indian Princesses", psychologist Stephanie Fryberg and colleagues studied the effects on American Indian high school students of exposure to Chief Wahoo and other depictions of Native Americans. While reporting positive associations to the images, effects included lower self-esteem, community ...
Shortly after moving to Oberlin, Sundance discovered the local high school, Oberlin High School, used a Native American emblem as the school's mascot. [9] He petitioned the local school board in order to convince them to adopt another mascot, in spite of opposition which argued in favor of the mascot's "insignificance". [ 9 ]
Native American writer and attorney Gyasi Ross compares Native American use of variations of the word "redskin" with African-American use of variations of the word "nigger"; specifically Natives calling each other "skins" as analogous to "nigga". Ross argues that the use of terms by some members of minority communities does not mean that the ...
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]
Contemporary gorget by Bennie Pokemire (Eastern Band Cherokee), featuring a Mississippian warrior with a forked eye motif Turtle shells and stones have also infrequently been carved into gorgets. In the 18th century, metal medallions replaced shell gorgets among Eastern tribes. [ 20 ]
Ledger drawing of an Arapaho warrior riding down a U.S. soldier (1880) Ledger drawing of an Arapaho warrior with headdress, counting coup with rifle butt on a U.S. soldier. Ledger drawing of an Arapaho warrior in battle with a U.S. soldier on horseback. The most significant battle of the war was the Battle of The Little Bighorn on June 25–26 ...
The performance of a student in a Native American costume, which was similar to Chief Illiniwek, has been discontinued, and a committee will be formed to discuss the imagery that will be used in the future. [231] Mandaree High School, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, Mandaree, North Dakota; Magna Vista High School, Ridgeway, Virginia