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 ...

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 ...

On the same day Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School announced it would be changing its logo from a Native American-like symbol to a knight, students at Toms River South donned tribal headdresses and ...

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 ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane Public Schools voted unanimously on Wednesday night to change the mascots and symbols of several local schools. SPS voted to change the mascot and symbol of the North Central ...

When the University of Illinois' Board of Trustees announced its decision to remove its 81-year mascot, Chief Illiniwek, on Feb. 16, 2007, it represented what many consider to be an important step in ...

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 ...

At a mostly white high school near Salt Lake City, the steps leading to the football field are covered in red handprints, arrows and drawings of Native American men in headdresses meant to represent ...

Maine’s governor has signed a bill making the state the first to prohibit public schools, colleges and universities from using Native American symbols as mascots. Gov. Janet Mills signed the measure ...

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 ...