New York is discriminating against a school district that refuses to get rid of its Native American chief mascot and could face a Justice Department investigation or risk losing federal funding ...

Earlier administrations investigated whether Native American school mascots were discriminatory. The Trump administration defends them, reflecting a broader shift. By Troy Closson A New York ...

in addition to its duty to carry out the mandates of federal law with respect to American Indian and Alaska Native tribes and villages,” Sharpe said. More than 18,000 children, some as young as ...

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (AP) — New York is discriminating against a school district that refuses to get rid of its Native American chief mascot and could face a Justice Department investigation or risk ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York education officials won’t rescind the state’s ban on Native American mascots and team names, despite threats from the Trump administration that it risks losing ...

But Nygren and other Navajo leaders said cuts to federal health programs outside the Indian Health Service are hurting Native Americans. "You're disrupting real lives," Cherilyn Yazzie ...

The state's ban on Native American imagery in public schools violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon said during a press conference at Massapequa High ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York education officials won’t rescind the state’s ban on Native American mascots and team names, despite threats from the Trump administration that it risks losing ...

The Department of Education (DOE) has found that two New York agencies violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act after they banned Native American-inspired mascots and logos, a finding uncovered ...