As momentum builds to improve how schools teach history (including the more painful parts of it), there’s been a push for more comprehensive, thoughtful, and accurate education around Indigenous American history. In recent years, some states have passed legislation to better ensure that Indigenous American history and culture are reflected […]
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Bill to ban Indigenous mascots, logos and symbols in public colleges is debated in the Washington condition Legislature
In the center of Ivy Pete’s high school’s business sits a glass case caging two Indigenous American mascots in tribal gown. To her, they do not signify a serious group of individuals or a lifestyle. They symbolize “the defeated and extinct Native American, akin to animals in a zoo,” she […]