Posted on 09/30/2012 10:03:10 AM PDT by Steelfish
By Abby Ellin Sep 29, 2012 Washington State Wants Schools to Ban Native American Mascots
If the Washington State Board of Education has its way, high schools across the state will no longer count Warriors, Braves, and Redskins among their mascots.
The state board passed a resolution last Wednesday encouraging districts to stop using Native American mascots, according to ABC affiliate KOMO-TV, in Seattle.
The resolution, which is similar to resolution passed by the board in 1993, cites research conducted by Dr. Stephanie Fryberg, a member of Tulalip Tribes in Washington State and an associate professor of Social and Cultural Psychology at the University of Arizona.
Fryberg and the American Psychological Association presented their research on the psychological consequences of using Native American mascots before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee in May, 2011. Other findings include an increased achievement gap between Native American and other students and negative effects on race relations in the United States.
In the past decade, 10 Washington State high schools gave up their Indian-named mascots, including Eatonville Middle School, which went from the Warriors to the Eagles, and Eisenhower Middle School in Everett, which went from the Warriors to the Patriots.
But 50 more, including some tribal schools, haven’t given up their nicknames. And despite the resolution, the board doesn’t have the authority to require schools to comply with the change, board spokesman Aaron Wyatt told KOMO. However, he added, there will be no adverse consequences for schools that don’t voluntarily choose a new mascot.
The Native American mascot controversy — that is, whether to ban the names from school sports teams — has been hotly debated for decades.
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Wahhhhhhhhhhh!
...oh, they mean American Injuns-—well then why didn't they say so right off?
More political correctness. What else is new?
So they dont like people admiring the integrity and fighting spirit of Indians warriors?
How racist can they get?
Does the law apply to Elizabeth Warren’s resume?
The oldest human remains found in the Americas were recently "discovered" in the storeroom of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. Found in central Mexico in 1959, the five skulls were radiocarbon dated by a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Mexico and found to be 13,000 years old. They pre-date the Clovis culture by a couple thousand years, adding to the growing evidence against the Clovis-first model for the first peopling of the Americas.
Of additional significance is the shape of the skulls, which are described as long and narrow, very unlike those of modern Native Americans.
Well, it’s still called the Bureau of Indian Affairs...
Then I turned around to see the other side of the tee-pee and saw a small poster which specifically noted that Native Americans find Hollywood's portrayal of their culture to be insulting, especially that annoying "Wah-Wah-Wah-Wah-Wah" Indian war whoop.
We all burst out laughing.
Does that include Cougars? (Think WSU.)
So the term “Warriors” is now solely the provenance of Native Americans?
and PETA wants to ban animal names and mascots too....We are such an insensitive nation..../s
Maybe some Washington state team can call themselves the ‘Elizabeth Warrens’. Nothing “native American” about that. Honest Injun!
This is mostly about white Leftists pretending to be offended. American Indians know that these names are honorific. It is obvious that schools traditionally choose mascots based on their admirable qualities.
Indian imagery is part of our history, and the Left is doing an ethnic cleansing.
But not according “to research conducted by Dr. Stephanie Fryberg, a member of Tulalip Tribes in Washington State and an associate professor of Social and Cultural Psychology at the University of Arizona.”
This from a Jewish professor of “social and cultural psychology” Who would know there were these kinds of study “majors” being taught. Ahh. That explains why we have so many Obama voters. Our tax dollars at work!
Change every indian-themed team mascot into a caucasian-themed mascot. 100% of them. Then pop some popcorn and sit back and wait for the minority outrage that schools only have white mascots.
How about names like “The Casino Monopolists” or “The Whale Shooters” or “The Large Tax Exempt Special Interest Gambling Money Machines”?
Yep, I always said, if you want to dishonor somebody or something, make them a school mascot. Oh, the humiliation. /s
Seriously, though, every school in the south with an indian mascot of which I’m aware has had strong support from the tribes. Florida State from the Seminole, Pembroke from the Lumbee, on and on. North Dakota, too. I don’t get it at all. It makes no logical sense whatsoever. Well, maybe that’s my problem, trying to apply logic to liberal diversity nostrums.
I’ve got Cherokee entering into my lines several different ways myself, and attended university nearby the Eastern Band’s reservation. Their high school on that reservation is Cherokee High. Their mascot? The Braves.
Pop some popcorn when the dimwitted dogooders try to force them to change their mascot.
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