Bill to ban Native mascots, logos and symbols in public schools is debated in the Washington state Legislature

In the center of Ivy Pete’s high school’s office sits a glass case caging two Native American mascots in tribal dress. To her, they do not represent a real group of humans or a culture. They symbolize “the defeated and extinct Native American, akin to animals in a zoo,” she said. 

Pete, a 16-year-old student from Spokane and member of the Paiute tribe, spoke in support of a bill introduced in the Washington Legislature to prohibit such displays in public schools, along with other Native American symbols considered by many to be insulting.

Source: Bill to ban Native mascots, logos and symbols in public schools is debated in the Washington state Legislature - The Seattle Times