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New York is discriminating against a school district that refuses to get rid of its Native American chief mascot
and could face a Justice Department investigation or risk losing
federal funding, President Donald Trump’s top education official said
Friday.
“The
Trump Administration will not stand idly by as state leaders attempt to
eliminate the history and culture of Native American tribes,” the
former longtime CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment said.
McMahon
said her department will give the state 10 days to sign an agreement
rescinding its Native American mascot ban and apologizing to Native
Americans for having discriminated against them and attempted to “erase”
their history.
Every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (and Monday night) millions of
Americans will scream and beg for my Indian people to be scalped,
chopped, burned, tomahawked and murdered, by the Indians, Savages,
Redskins, and Braves across the field.
A 2014 protest against the name of Washington state's football team (via Fibonacci Blue/Flickr)
From fashion design to athletics, the appropriation of Native
American cultural symbols is pervasive throughout the US. According to #PeopleNotMascots,
a digital resource bringing attention to the detrimental
misappropriation of Indigenous-inspired symbols in the US educational
system, one in 26 secondary schools nationwide brandish a Native
American mascot; in North Dakota, the number climbs to one in 15.
Recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Diné Tiktoker and crochet artistLily (@sheshortnbrown)
spread the word about the resource for identifying and protesting these
mascots in your area. The website allows site visitors to search
mascots appropriating Indigenous symbols in their state, also offering a
template letter addressed to state legislators “to demand that they
eliminate Native mascots within your state.”
For decades, Indigenous activists have lambasted the common trend of
schools, sports teams, and other organizations appropriating Native
American symbols as mascots. The usage of Native mascots is a pervasive
issue. Debates around the appropriation of these images have been most
visible in the realm of athletics, with several sports teams in recent
years conceding to decades of protests and agreeing to change their names, including the Cleveland Indians.
Currently, just Washington, Maine, and Colorado have banned the use
of Native mascots. The letter encourages lawmakers to follow in the
footsteps of these states, stating: “Historically, Natives have not been
treated as human beings. This has been seen through the atrocities such
as residential schools, the Long Walk, the Trail of Tears, and mass
genocide through colonization, and now Native mascots.”
According to the letter, “Native children that are overly exposed to
racist stereotypes are more likely to have lower self-esteem, distance
themselves from their culture, have a lower belief in personal
achievement, and worsen mood.”
“Native people are not caricatures,” the letter beseeches. “Native
people are not a monolith, they are diverse in customs and values. […]
By bringing forth a bill alongside the aforementioned states,
tax-payer’s funds will no longer be used to propagate harmful and
dehumanizing depictions of Indigenous people — a vital step in reckoning
with our nation’s past.”
Join
us as we condemn racist mascots, and declare our Native children
People, Not Mascots. Tweet #PeopleNotMascots. 1 in 26. secondary schools nationwide has a Native
mascot. click on a state to view the schools and sign active petitions. 1
in 26.
A new federal investigation into the unmarked graves of Indigenous students unearths a complicated history and patchy records at dozens of Oklahoma boarding school sites.
Chilocco alumni only knew of 10 graves at the school when they began
taking care of the site more than 20 years ago, but they’ve since
uncovered 57 additional burials that occurred between 1884 to 1937 — all
unmarked.
When Native Americans make a big deal out of mascots and racist depictions in movies, it’s because it matters. These shape the public perception of Natives and it’s all wrong. Often times, it devalues Native life—like this video of Bugs Bunny killing Natives and keeping score pic.twitter.com/ZmZT9So7gl
Kim Wheeler was adopted during the Sixties Scoop and fought to find her way back to her culture My name is Kim Wheeler but some know me as...
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You are not alone
To Veronica Brown
Veronica, we adult adoptees are thinking of you today and every day. We will be here when you need us. Your journey in the adopted life has begun, nothing can revoke that now, the damage cannot be undone. Be courageous, you have what no adoptee before you has had; a strong group of adult adoptees who know your story, who are behind you and will always be so.
Diane Tells His Name
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Lost Birds on Al Jazeera Fault Lines
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NO MORE STOLEN SISTERS
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We conclude this series & continue the conversation by naming that adoption is genocide. This naming refers to the process of genocide that breaks kinship ties through adoption & other forms of family separation & policing 🧵#NAAM2022#AdoptionIsTraumaAND#AdopteeTwitter#FFY 1/6 pic.twitter.com/46v0mWISZ1
As the single largest unregulated industry in the United States, adoption is viewed as a benevolent action that results in the formation of “forever families.” The truth is that it is a very lucrative business with a known sales pitch. With profits last estimated at over $1.44 billion dollars a year, mothers who consider adoption for their babies need to be very aware that all of this promotion clouds the facts and only though independent research can they get an accurate account of what life might be like for both them and their child after signing the adoption paperwork.
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