American Indian Sports Team Mascots
- 11/10/11 Dalrymple signs Sioux nickname repeal
- October 2010 Wisconsin law lets residents challenge race-based mascots
- May - September 2010 The Univerity of North Dakota is directed to retire its "Fighting Sioux" nickname and logo. NCAA approves of UND's plan, removes it from blacklist
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Standing
Rock Sioux Resolution Powerpoint presentation
by Che Butler and Luhui Whitebear World Wide Web Exclusive!! Complete Text United States Commission on Civil Rights Position Statement American Psychological Association
Resolution Frequently Asked Questions about "Indian" mascots
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Educators' Resources |
Trailblazers List of schools and others that have changed "Indian" mascots |
Chronology Documenting many significant events over more than 30 years | ||
| Get Involved Now! Lists of "Indian" mascot users | Related
links Issue specific, American Indian, propaganda, and human rights |
Psychological aspects A summary of some primary psychological issues related to the use of "Indian" sports team tokens |
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Action
Alert Notices of events and
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"I am not a sports team mascot.
With all due respect to the teams who want to honor me by having a Native
American mascot, it's outdated. It's the wrong way." "We don't view it as looking
down on the race...We're not trying to make light of anyone or certainly
not ridiculing anyone." |
In a survey by Indian Country Today, 81 percent of respondents indicated use of American Indian names, symbols and mascots are predominantly offensive and deeply disparaging to Native Americans.
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"The ridicule, mockery and
utter racism Native Americans are subject to because of the use of Indian
mascots are intolerable." "The high school's
mascot is a student dressed in a buckskin outfit who wears a mask with
a big nose, large lips, large eyes, big cheeks and long, black hair." "If
we thought it was offensive, we wouldn't do it." | ||||||
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Some "traditions" change. |
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Donald L. Fixico |
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