Education Secretary Linda McMahon says her agency found that New York’s ban on tribal themed mascots in public schools ...

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (AP) — New York is discriminating against a school district that refuses to get rid of its Native American ...

New York is discriminating against a school district that refuses to get rid of its Native American chief mascot and could ...

A marquee outside Massapequa High School in Massapequa, N.Y., is backdropped by a Chiefs mascot mural on April 25, 2025. The ...

a Native American man wearing a feathered headdress. On Friday, the federal education secretary, Linda McMahon, visited the district to announce that by restricting the use of Native mascots ...

Sacred eagleA copper headdress plate from Mississippian culture ... (This little-known Native American society was once as powerful as the Aztecs and Incas.) Newspaper accounts of his discovery ...

But indigenous residents on Long Island and elsewhere in New York have called Massapequa’s mascot problematic as it depicts a Native American man wearing a headdress that was typically worn by ...