For years it has been the University of Illinois mascot, then this week Niles West High School’s mascot. Sooner or later the ultimate absurdity regarding the so-called insulted Native Americans had to ...

In 1937, Phoenix was a small city isolated in the middle of the Arizona desert with a population of less than 50,000 people who, like the rest of the nation, were struggling to recover from the Great ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Clovis High School student is going to court over the school districts refusal to allow him to wear a feather on his graduation cap. The Native American student says the ...

Marquette University's new seal is designed to honor its Jesuit roots and the Native American people of Milwaukee and Wisconsin. Following years of student activism and campus deliberation, Marquette ...

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — West Hartford leaders have moved one step closer towards pulling all Native American symbols out of the town’s high schools, and the students are still split over it.

"I understand why Native Americans might be offended, but at the same time, I think it's a symbol of strength, so they should be proud a school wants to use that as their mascot," Swenson said. At ...