High-profile tribal activists backed a Long Island school in its fight to keep its team name despite a state ban on Native ...

SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois K-12 schools may soon be required to pick new mascots to replace those that reference Native American names and imagery. That would include logos, team names and mascots ...

The Native American Student Assembly reached out to several Native American performers in the Los Angeles community. (Bani Chauhan / Daily Trojan) The sound of drums, prayer, singing and dancing could ...

This can be the case for some Native American mascots in amateur and professional sports that in recent years have come under fire for being innately “offensive.” I would contend it is far more ...

"When I think of a warrior, I think of somebody with bravery… We honor and celebrate our Native American heritage here on Long Island." The district sued the state in September, saying that the ...

President Donald Trump ordered Education Secretary Linda McMahon to intervene in a New York legal dispute over a school using a Native American mascot. The New York Board of Regents ordered all ...

The first Native American Veterans Memorial will be installed next to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The community gathered the funding for this through fundraising efforts and donations from the ...

marking a continuation of efforts by the federal government to address high rates of violence affecting Native American communities. The U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday that the ...

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (PIX11) — There’s been an ongoing dispute between New York State and local Long Island departments of education over Native American mascot names and images used at schools.

For years, Native American students in the Rapid City, South Dakota, school district were more likely to be disciplined and less likely to enroll in advanced courses than their White peers.

President Donald Trump is siding with a Long Island school district in its attempt to keep its Chiefs iconography after New York state banned schools from using Native American mascots and team names.

The school is a K-12 that offers a Native American culturally-based education. The school’s building is located on the shores of Mission Lake. Two recent executive orders issued by President ...