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Posted on 10/19/2026 8:32:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
New York plans to drop part of its statewide ban on Native American imagery for school sports logos.
The Department of Education said Monday it will recommend that the Board of Regents, which adopted the 2023 mandate and issued a June 2025 deadline for rebranding, saying districts that didn't comply could lose state aid, now leave those decisions to local school districts.
"Legal challenges brought by Long Island school boards against the Board of Regents' regulation addressing Indigenous mascots have been unsuccessful. Most recently, a federal appeals court dismissed Wantagh's challenge, finding that the district could not pursue its claims against the State," a DOE spokesperson said in a statement, adding, "
As schools complete the transition away from stereotypical Indigenous mascots, the Department will recommend that the Board of Regents leave decisions regarding employee clothing, including apparel displaying offensive Indigenous imagery, to local school districts, consistent with how other employee attire and personnel decisions are handled."
The Massapequa School District has been fighting the ban to hold on to its "Chiefs" name and logo. The district was one of several to sue the state over the ban, and accuse the state of committing a civil rights violation.
Massapequa's Board of Education says it sees the DOE's decision as a win, saying in a statement, "This is a significant victory for Massapequa. From the beginning, we have maintained that the Native American mascot ban is an unconstitutional overreach. We now call on Gov. Hochul to repeal the entire regulation."
Ever since the ban was enacted, Massapequa High School pushed back, and in July 2025 the town asked President Trump to issue an executive order that would protect Native American mascots and imagery nationwide by outlawing any such bans.
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The way you show respect for native Americans is erase their existence from the public record.
Whose idea was that?
White liberals looking for the next thing to get all wee Wee’s up about, that’s who
“...Whose idea was that?...”
Most likely would be the communists’ AWFLs that want to do awful things to America.
It's similar to naming teams after fierce animals like lions and tigers. When I was in high school our team was called the Tigers and for decades we had a picture of a fierce tiger on the billboard outside the school. One day, with no input from students, they changed the picture to a dopey looking tiger because the old one "might frighten small children" (no evidence was given for this). The student body was up in arms about this. As managing editor of the school newspaper, I raised a big stink about it. I think eventually (after I graduated) they removed the picture entirely.
California has a similar law, and Fullerton High School in Fullerton is the latest victim.
Since the late nineteenth century, Fullerton teams were the Indians. The students, staff and faculty fully embraced and identified with the mascot, and paintings of Indian heads and other Indian imagery permeated the campus.
To comply with the law, the school started calling itself the Tribe and tried to keep its Indian images, but the bureaucrats said no. So this past year, the Indian heads have been painted over and all Indian imagery has been blotted out, most likely at the cost of tens of thousands of dollars which could have gone to books, computers, etc.
The school’s new mascot is the Red Hawks, which, I guess, is a bird species, but I have found no evidence that it actually exists. We shall see if the new mascot inspires the same sort of loyalty that the Indians did.
Where I live, the local high school’s teams are called “The Warriors” and they play Hollywood Indian music, like that used in old Western movies, during halftime while the students do a war dance. And the majority of the students are American Indians.
I’ve long thought that sports teams should make contracts with tribes for all sorts of things: logos, artistic designs, music, you name it. This is because original design art is a big money maker for many tribes. Conversely, such contracts protect the teams from harassment by Karens, Nasty Nellies, whiners and lawyers.
It is NOT “racist” if it was designed by and licensed from a tribe. Contracts can also include things like premium seating and parking that the tribe can decide to reserve for tribal members or even to sell, concessions, etc.
Whether or not that was the intent, that's been the result. The only place the memory of Native Americans will survive is in museums, and among academics. But in the eyes of the public, it will vanish.
Good job, you do-gooding idiots.
“Might be an Islamic future”
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Or a Hindu future...
It is worth noting the the Seminoles have formally endorsed FSU’s use of their name, and have basically told woke government officials to sit down and shut up.
Pretty much everybody is proud of their heritage.
Vikings, Fighting Irish, Yankees, etc.
All are OK, but Chiefs or Braves not?
The natives should demand to name more teams like that, no less!
In AZ, one of the Navajo reservation high school has team proudly named Redskins.
I guess, since they all are Navajos, they yet failed to force them to change. But in the future, who knows?
I wonder how school bureaucrats would react to a team named "The Pharaohs," "The Nomads," or "The Sultans?"
Regards,
Commanders and Guardians... so pathetic.
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