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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For indigenous people, everything from the word “America” to the insulting ways native symbols are used is a reminder of how those of European ancestry nearly killed a culture—and still misrepresent ...

The 16-member commission is urging schools to eliminate the use of such mascots as the Indians, the Warriors, the Savages, the Little Braves and the Redskins - unless the schools partner with tribes ...