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"It's time for the world to see that we are still here, thriving and creating beauty as we always have," store owner Ruth-Ann ...
Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share Earlier this month, the Illinois House passed legislation — House Bill 1237 — that would phase out the use of Native American-based mascots and logos in our state ...
The U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation into the New York Department of Education (NYDOE) Friday over a Long Island high school's mascot. The NYDOE banned Native American ...
SPRINGFIELD — Following a wave of schools and professional sports teams over the last 20 years scaling back usage of Native American-themed names, imagery, mascots and logos, the Democrat-led ...
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 ...
A woman is dressed in traditional Native American clothing and backed up against a wall with a scared expression on her face. What she is fearful of is left up to the viewer to imagine.
The U.S. Postal Service will be hosting a first-day-of-issue ceremony for the "powwow" stamps, which are designed to celebrate Native American culture.The stamps are created in honor of powwows ...
As Congress mulls potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, health centers that serve Native American communities, such as the Oneida Community Health Center near Green Bay ...
Indigenous sisters Jamilah and Justice Maldonado spoke out last year about how hurtful they found the portrayals of Native Americans within the Golden-based Westernaires, hoping the longtime ...
Centuries of anti-Native American policies and colonization have upheld inequities between Native residents in Massachusetts and non-Native Americans, according to a new report that researchers ...