Indigenous logos under fire from U of S English dept.

By Jonathan Charlton. The U of S English department has joined the chorus of academic voices calling for the end of indigenous-themed mascots.
At a December 11 faculty meeting, the department passed a motion reading, in part, “when prejudicial caricatures of indigenous people have institutional power behind them, this situation compromises the ability of a society to hear and see indigenous people’s self-representations.”
The departments of native studies and educational foundations have already passed similar resolutions, joined most recently by the archeology department. More...