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- Title
The Elimination of Indigenous Mascots, Logos, and Nicknames: Organizing on College Campuses.
- Authors
Hofmann, Sudie
- Abstract
This article discusses a brief history of activism on the American Indian mascot issue in Minnesota with a specific focus on college campuses. The first documented evidence of activism on this issue in Minnesota was in 1967 when Mankato State University began a ten-year debate to change its logo and nickname from the Indians to the Mavericks. Thus, the long history of activism on issues of American Indian mascots and nicknames in Minnesota seems to have found its roots on the Mankato campus, not far from the location of the largest federal execution in U.S. history when thirty-eight Dakota Indians were hanged in 1862. In 1988 the Minnesota Board of Education, with courageous leadership from Will Antell, White Earth Anishinaabe and State Director of Equal Educational Opportunities in the State Department of Education, worked collectively with the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union, CAIP, and the Minnesota Dakotas Region of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, to draft a policy that required all school districts in Minnesota with American Indian nicknames to cease using them.
- Subjects
MINNESOTA; HISTORY of indigenous peoples of the Americas; EDUCATION of the indigenous peoples of the Americas; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; COLLEGE mascots
- Publication
American Indian Quarterly, 2005, Vol 29, Issue 1/2, p156
- ISSN
0095-182X
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/aiq.2005.0051