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Definition and rationale for
term "American Indian"
- Indian, American
Indian, and Native Americans: Counterfeit Identities, Michael Yellow Bird, Ph.D.
Archives
Articles on the 'net
Articles found elsewhere
Books
Other items (Videos and documents)
Educators Resources
- Legal reviews bibliography
on trademark and copyright issues relating to "Indian"
sports team tokens
- "Indians" and Animals: A Comparative Essay,
David Rider, Ph.D.
- Negative Labels and Oppression, Michael
Yellow Bird, Ph.D.
- Why Educators Can't Ignore Indian Mascots, Cornel
Pewewardy, Ph.D.
- Society of Indian Psychologists Draft
mascot letter
- Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council Resolution
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Resolutions by the Anthropology and History departments, College of Medicine, Center for African Studies
Dr. Robert Ward's Washington State Tribunal Court
Decision
- NCAA Committee opposes mascot use
- 2002 Mascot
resolution New Hampshire State Board of Education
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2002 Mascot resolution North Carolina State Advisory Council on Indian
Education
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2002 Mascot resolution Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Board
- 2002 Mascot resolution Iowa Civil
Rights Commission
- 2002 Mascot resolution Illinois State
University Student Government Association
- 2001 Mascot resolution American Counseling
Association
- 2001 Mascot resolution
Minnesota Indian Education Association
- 2001 Mascot
resolution Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muskogee, Cherokee, and Seminole Nations
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2001 Mascot position statement National Conference for Community and Justice
issued a Statement
- 2001 Mascot resolution Modern Language
Association
- 2001 Mascot position statement United States
Commission on Civil Rights
- 2001 Mascot position statement New York State
Education Department position statement
- 2001 Mascot resolution Maryland
Commission on Indian Affairs
- 2001-2000 Mascot resolution National Education Association (09/21/02 - link
not active. NEA reports site being redesigned)
- 2000
Mascot resolution Associated Students Council of San Diego State University
- 2000
Mascot resolution North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs
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2000 Mascot resolutions Native American Caucus of the California Democratic
Party
- 2000 Mascot resolution
Southern California Indian Center
- 2000 Mascot resolution Medicine
Wheel Intertribal Association
- 2000 Mascot resolution Juaneņo Band
of Mission Indians
- 2000 Mascot resolution Tennessee Chapter of
the National Coalition for the Preservation of Indigenous Cultures
- 2000 Mascot resolution Peoria Tribe of Indians
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2000 letter to trustees of the University of Illinois from the Southern
Poverty Law Center
- 2000 List of Organizations Endorsing
Retirement of "Indian" Sports Team Tokens
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2000 Legal reviews bibliography on
trademark and copyright issues relating to "Indian"
sports team tokens
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1999 Resolution "On the Negative Effects of Stereotyping Native
Americans" by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
- 1999 U.S. Census Bureau Policy on Using Athletic
Teams with American Indian or Alaska Native Names in Promoting Census 2000
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1999 Mascot resolution Georgia House of Representatives (drafted but not
passed)
- 1999 Resolution by the Hutchinson (KS)
Human Relations Commission
- 1999 Illiniwek stance of the Society
for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
- 1999 Mascot resolution adopted by the
NAACP and the 1992 version
- 1999 Mascot resolution of the Nebraska Commission on
Indian Affairs
- 1999 Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council Resolution
- 1998 Resolution by the Kansas Association for Native
American Education
- 1998 Statement on team names by
the American Jewish Committee
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1998 Mascot resolution Governors' Interstate Indian Council
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1997 Mascot resolution by the Los Angeles School Board. Made available by Advocates
for American Indian Children
- 1996 Stances of the United
Methodist Church toward Native Peoples including the Church's position Concerning Demeaning Names to Native Americans
- 1994 Mascot resolution Native American Journalists
Association, et al
- 1993 Mascot Resolution from the National Congress of
American Indians
- 1993 Resolution by the Washington State
Department of Public Instruction
- 1993 "Wahoo" Resolution
by the Commission on Catholic Community Action
- 1992 mascot resolution by the American Indian
Language and Culture Education Board, Wisconsin State
- 1992 Mascot resolution NAACP
- 1991/92 National Education Association Resolutions
- 1988 Minnesota State Board of Education
Resolution
- 1988 Recommendations from
the Michigan Civil Rights Commission
- Cartoons concerning American Indian Mascots
- Propaganda Images
- Negative Labels and
Oppression
- "Indian,
American Indian, and Native Americans: Counterfeit Identities"
- Bibliography containing
titles relating to American Indian stereotypes and associated topics
- 13 Lucky Tips for Advocates
State by State mascot info
Related links
Issue Specific
- Archive of articles from the Daily Illini concerning
"Chief Illiniwak"
- Cyber Hall of Shame (statistics on top 10 states using
"Indian" mascots and nicknames)
- "Some Honor" slideshow of "Indian" mascot
images
- Cartoons concerning American Indian Mascots
- Propaganda Images
- University of North Dakota "Money, Moniker, and Morality"
- A Season of Brilliance - Biographical essay on
Louis Francis Sockalexis
American Indian
Propaganda
Forewarned
Miscellaneous Documents
American
Indian Sports Team Mascots
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