Massapequa was among four school districts on Long Island that filed a federal suit challenging the ban, arguing their choice ...

The move comes just after President Trump weighed in on the dispute surrounding Massapequa High School's longtime "Chiefs" logo.

One of the last New York school districts fighting a 2023 ban on Native American mascots has won a powerful ally in the White ...

The Department of Education launched an investigation Friday into New York state’s own Education Department and its Board of Regents for threatening to pull funding from a Long Island high school that ...

President Donald Trump issued support to a Northeast high school using a Native American as a mascot, defying a statewide ban ...

For Native American students, exposure to Native American mascots reduces self-esteem, their ability to imagine future ...

With John Asbury Local officials and community members on Long Island said they will continue to fight a state mandate requiring schools eliminate Native American mascots and team names ...

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 – joining a President Trump rallying cry. Frank Black ...

But as the Chickasaw Nation member grew up and learned about his Indigenous roots, he came to see the school’s mascot — a stereotypical Native American man wearing a headdress — as problematic.

“It is not lost on the Department that there are several mascots that refer to indigenous or ethnic groups — the Vikings, Fighting Irish, the Cowboys — and yet New York has specifically ...