Many Native Americans are marking ceremonies like graduations with bald eagle feathers, a form of reverence for the bird they ...

On Saturday, more than 20 Native-owned food trucks will line Harriet Island Regional Park in St. Paul for Minnesota’s first Native American food truck festival — a full-day celebration of culture, ...

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State legislators and advocates are trying once again to ban Native American mascots in Massachusetts high schools.

Native American imagery is all around us, while the people are often forgotten For indigenous people, everything from the word “America” to the insulting ways native symbols are used is a ...

Arriving at Duke in 2022, Lewis is the inaugural director of the university’s Native American Studies Initiative (NASI). Last year, she helped launch the Cherokee Language Course Series, the first ...

Perhaps the best-known Native American group in the Chattanooga area is the Cherokee. In their relations with settlers, the Cherokee experienced a cultural revolution, Dever says.

Native Americans say mascot is dehumanizing But that dismissive attitude is precisely why stereotypical mascots are offensive, argues Joseph Pierce, director of Native American and Indigenous studies ...

A town refuses to give up the school’s Native American mascot — and gets Trump’s support Trump ordered the U.S. Department of Education to launch an investigation into the dispute over the ...

Native American News A town refuses to give up the school’s Native American mascot — and gets Trump’s support Published: Apr. 30, 2025, 3:41 p.m.

A few minutes drive away, next to the town’s post office, a statue of a Native American figure wearing a flowing headdress towers over those depicting a buffalo, a horse and a totem pole.

But as the Chickasaw Nation member grew up and learned about his Indigenous roots, he came to see the school's mascot — a stereotypical Native American man wearing a headdress — as problematic.