High-profile tribal activists backed a Long Island school in its fight to keep its team name despite a state ban on Native American logos ... that the word chief is in jeopardy in schools.

“Everything is being named for the people who were here before,” she said of the district’s name and logo that shows a non-cartoonish Native American chief in a headdress. “So how can a ...

The Massapequa School District’s mascot is the chief, including a district logo with the letter “M” adorning a Native American headdress. A recent New York Board of Regents policy barred the ...

To track Bigfoot today is to channel that frontier spirit (as well as to appropriate Native American traditions). Bigfoot also embodies other less romantic but no less enduring American traits ...

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (PIX11) — There’s been an ongoing dispute between New York State and local Long Island departments of education over Native American mascot names and images used at schools.

Long Islanders have asked for President Donald Trump's help, and it looks like they are getting it. Massapequa High School's nickname is the Chiefs, but New York law states that schools must ...

Race and Representation: Euro-American Depictions of Native Americans and Their Cultures is a joint ... 1795-1822) in the Chiwere language, was a young wife to Shaumonekusse, an Otoe chief. Said to be ...