Native Americans, not school boards, should decide use of Native American mascots, says Oneida Nation director

Mark Powless, the director of the South Eastern Oneida Tribal Services and one of the speakers the board invited to the meeting, said it is wrong that school boards across the nation are the ones deciding how Native Americans are represented through mascots. Native Americans, themselves, should be the ones to decide, he said.

. . . “As an indigenous person myself, being indigenous isn't about having an emblem on my shirt or having a mascot that I can relate to. It's about the culture that I carry with me every day… how I am represented as an indigenous person is a serious matter to me,” Powless said to the board.

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Submitted October 31, 2019 at 05:06AM by zsreport https://ift.tt/36fqEfL