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 ...

A new Barbie doll is ruffling some feathers. The doll honoring Native American chief Wilma Mankiller drew sneers when it was rolled out with an embarrassing error on ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An iconic chief of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller, inspired countless Native American children as a powerful but humble leader who expanded early education and rural ...

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 ...

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 ...

Early on Wednesday, the Minnesota Senate passed the Education Finance bill. The bill includes a provision prohibiting the use of Native American symbols or names as mascots unless all 11 Minnesota ...

In the center of Ivy Pete’s high school’s office sits a glass case caging two Native American mascots in tribal dress. To her, they do not represent a real group of humans or a culture. They symbolize ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. An sculpture depicting a Native American man, woman, and child has been installed on the southwest corner of Cherokee Street and ...

House Bill 1356 passed the House 92-5 Spokane-area Democrats Marcus Riccelli and Timm Ormsby and Republicans Jenny Graham, Mike Volz, Mary Dye, Joel Kretz, Jacquelin Maycumber and Joe Schmick voted in ...

Cherokee Phoenix editor Elias Boudinot, who also signed New Echota Treaty, was a schoolmaster at High Tower Mission School in Georgia. Elias Boudinot worked as a schoolmaster at High Tower Mission ...

A Native prayer -- Introduction -- A spiritual understanding about nature -- How I learned nature's language -- Nature's symbols -- How to develop symbolic and sppiritual thinking -- Stories for ...