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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 ...
Pages in category "Native American mascots" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. ... Native American mascot laws and regulations;
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
The House Education committee killed a bill prohibiting schools from using mascots and team names that are derogatory toward Native Americans.
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 ...
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 ...
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Also taking place in 2022 was the New York State Education Department's decision to require every school district in the state with Native American-themed mascots – or Native American-themed team names (such as "Warriors") – to change them unless receiving approval for an exemption from a state- or federally-recognized tribe; any district ...