COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Everybody wants to be a Cheyenne Mountain Indian, says student and tennis player Grace Cossin. As she points out, the 1,255-pupil school, on the west side of town in Cheyenne ...

Students and a Spokane Public Schools administration member pause in the North Central High School hallway around the statue of a Native American during the Pledge of Allegiance on the first day of in ...

D-11 was an early adopter of the Native American civil rights movement. In 1985, Palmer High School dropped its Eaglebeak mascot, which was drawn in 1945 by a student at what was then called the ...

Utah tribal leaders protest legislation aimed to keep Native American mascots Before facing east to the snowcapped mountains to lead a prayer, Eileen Quintana asked the 50 or so protesters who ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Many Native Americans and other indigenous people gathered on the steps of the State Capitol Saturday morning to fight against a resolution in the Utah Legislature that would ...

KENNEWICK — Fifty years ago, Kennewick and Yakama tribal officials stood side-by-side as they opened Kamiakin High School. Now school district officials are putting together a presentation to show how ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State Education Department put out a directive to all school districts across the state to not use Native American symbols or mascots are part of their school name, mascots ...

In the center of Ivy Pete’s high school’s office sits a glass case caging two Native American mascots in tribal dress. To her, they do not represent a real group of humans or a culture. They symbolize ...

SCOTCH PLAINS-- A Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School student has started an online petition calling on the principal to rid the school -- whose mascot is the Raiders -- of all ties to Native American ...

House Bill 1356 passed the House 92-5 Spokane-area Democrats Marcus Riccelli and Timm Ormsby and Republicans Jenny Graham, Mike Volz, Mary Dye, Joel Kretz, Jacquelin Maycumber and Joe Schmick voted in ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (WOI) - The Iowa Department of Human Rights is calling on Iowa Schools to stop using Native American symbols for mascots. The department said the mascots are degrading and hurtful.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - Everybody wants to be a Cheyenne Mountain Indian, says student and tennis player Grace Cossin. As Grace points out, the 1,255-pupil school, on the west side of town in ...