WICHITA NORTH HIGH STUDENTS emphatically declare anyone not wanting to be a REDSKIN should get out. ADMINISTRATORS deal with racist attacks on Indian students by removing those Indian students and placing them in other schools in Wichita.

Despite a history of two federal civil rights investigations, NORTH HIGH students, can still attend school events in their home-made
INDIAN HEADDRESSES while real Indians have to go to school somewhere else.

photo -October, 2001

The FBI conducted investigations into two hate crimes at Little River High. Superintendent Dogherty declared two students were to blame. Students at the school declared they defended their Redskins name. FBI agents determined local law enforcement had adequately handled the race bias criminal threats. In reality only one student was ever prosecuted and that was for misdemeanor disturbing the peace. FBI, KBI and local authorities failed to determine who made the rape threat.
Federal civil rights investigator, Ken Kern, confiscated headdresses and other pseudo Indian paraphernalia from the superintendent’s office closet.

However, Kern declared no civil rights violations against Indians would be enforced in the all white district since no one admitted to being Indian and the victims lived just across district boundaries.
Evidently every Indian has been purged from the area along the banks of the Little Arkansas River many years ago so race hate crimes generated in Little River schools against Indians do not matter.

It is impossible to travel in Kansas without encountering significant acts of racism directed against American Indians. In early October, 2001 a float depicting a burning at the stake conducted by Indians was paraded through Larned, Kansas streets
on a flatbed trailer.
On the same day a permanent mural was painted in front of the high school using racist "Injun UG” talk.

Incorporating violent stereotypes of Indians, the image of a twelve foot high blood dripping tomahawk was the centerpiece.
Despite the nation’s concern over inappropriate stereotypes and violence directed at Arab Americans following Sept 11, the same attitudes and behaviors directed at Kansas Indians in the area are encouraged by Larned Public Schools.