The town has refused to comply with a state mandate to retire Native American sports names and mascots. “There was no tribe east of the Mississippi that ever wore a headdress — ever,” said Drexler, 60 ...

President Donald Trump addressed the wave of sports teams that underwent name changes in recent years to remove references to Native American heritage ... MLB's Cleveland Indians to the Guardians ...

If signed into law, schools would be required to change: Names of federally recognized tribes and historical Native American people. Mascots depicting Native Americans. Imagery associated with Native ...

For the first time, a Native American tribe has formally supported the renaming of the Sutter Buttes, submitting the second proposal to change the name of the Sutter County icon to the U.S. Board on ...

Heather Shotton, an enrolled citizen of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes and a descendant of the Kiowa and Cheyenne tribes, ...

But older tribe members said they had felt similar ... Sometimes the clues to past seismic activity are in Native American place names, Ebel said. There's Moodus, Connecticut, for instance.

For Native American students, exposure to Native American mascots reduces self-esteem, their ability to imagine future ...

“There was no tribe east of the Mississippi ... The NFL’s Chiefs have stuck with their name despite years of protest from some Native American activists. Five years ago, the team barred ...