MASCOTS
MASCOTS
"The use of American Indian mascots as symbols in schools and university athletic programs is particularly troubling because schools are places of learning. These mascots are teaching stereotypical, misleading and too often, insulting images of American Indians. These negative lessons are not just affecting American Indian students; they are sending the wrong message to all students."
- Former American Psychological Association President Ronald F. Levant
"The use of American Indian mascots as symbols in schools and university athletic programs is particularly troubling because schools are places of learning. These mascots are teaching stereotypical, misleading and too often, insulting images of American Indians. These negative lessons are not just affecting American Indian students; they are sending the wrong message to all students."
- Former American Psychological Association President Ronald F. Levant
Exploitation of Indigenous cultural symbols for use as mascots.
Resolution Condemning the use of the term “Redskins”
List of sports team names and mascots derived from indigenous peoples