The U.S. Department of Education says New York’s ban on Native American mascots violates federal civil rights law.

New York’s ban on Native American mascots violates federal civil rights law, according to the Department of Education. But state education officials rejected their findings as legally flawed and ...

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

Massapequa residents are hosting a “Save the Chief” festival fund-raiser on Saturday, June 7, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the ...

Trooper Nathan Branosky, spokesman for the Troop M barracks, said authorities recovered the body around 12:30 p.m. May 25 in ...

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

(AP) — Victoria's Secret has apologized for putting a Native American-style headdress on a model for its annual fashion show, after the outfit was criticized as a display of ignorance toward ...

But as the Chickasaw Nation member grew up and learned about his Indigenous roots, he came to see the school’s mascot — a stereotypical Native American man wearing a headdress — as problematic.