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The Injustice of Native American Mascots: A Legal Perspective

Submitted by: Craig T. Bogar, Doctoral Candidate, USSA

Native American imagery is ubiquitous in our society. There are many towns, counties, and states that derive their names from Native American languages, tribal names, or terminology. The same is true regarding the origin of many sports teams’ mascots. Unfortunately, many images are based on Native American people of several hundred years ago or upon stereotyped misunderstandings of their diverse culture, language, and history. “Consequently, society often accepts images of Native Americans as a single war-like group frozen in time” (Trainor, 1995).

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