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INDIAN
MASCOT REFERENCE PAPERS
& AMERICAN HOLOCAUST ISSUES
This
page contains resolutions, documents and articles related to
Indian
Mascots and the
AMERICAN HOLOCAUST
from the SEVEN CREEDS SOCIETY
TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMITTEE
19th Century
Where did Indian mascots come from? You will be told the "INDIAN" mascot was first created in respect and honor for Native Americans. This is a lie. The reality of American treatment of the so called INDIAN reveals a hideous record of torture and abuse especially toward children. By the 1920's these mascots had been massively adopted in public schools all over the country because manipulating Indian identity had become a ritualized entertainment facet of Whites.
1910's
Indian Boarding School, Nance Oklahoma- The confinement of children in sub human condiitons included disease ridden facilities. A white staff member deperately writes to her superior to be transfered out of the malarial conditions..
1920's
Boarding School Conditions- 1928, Short article. "In the majority of the boarding schools the researchers visited, the children attended school only four hours a day, or even less. The rest of their time was devoted to vocational training. Most of the sleeping areas were considered fire hazards. The students were sleeping two to a single bed because there were no more beds available."
Circular 1665- The practice of any Indian religion was made a crime in the 1920's by Indian Affairs Commissioner Charles H. Burke. April 26, 1921 brought a formal declaration of criminal persecution for any persons who practiced their family beliefs.
On February 24, 1923, a "Message to Indians" was issued against Native American family religions. "All such extreme things are wrong and should be put aside and forgotten. You do yourselves and your families great injustice when at dances you give away money or other property, perhaps clothing, a cow, a horse or a team and wagon, and then after an absence of several days go home to find everything going to waste and yourselves with less to work with than you had before."
1930's
Molly Moo Cow and the Indians- Except for those towns bordering reservations, few persons had contact with Native Americans. Main stream culture had invented roles for Indians outside reservations and those roles were rigidly enforced. The era of lynching was still in effect. Making fun of religion and religious symbols, Molly Moo Cow bellows wearing her headdress and dances with a drum on her butt smacking it with her tail.
1990's
Racial hate threat- Little River Kansas Redskin, An all white school district makes criminal acts into entertainment.
My Heart Is On the Ground; This book is feeding you lies about the genocide of boarding schools, read why in this review. Excellent quick look at the living hell Native children and families were put through to make whites feel better. Remaining in force until the Indian Education Act of the middle 1970's, the Indian boarding schools are the most hideous untold event of modern American history.
RACIST INDIAN CARTOONS
Knoxville Tennessee News Sentinel. January 1999 cartoon depicting Seminole run over by train and "All New Improved Trail of Tears"
"Children's cartoons reflect America's biased view of history and reinforce negative stereotypes of non-whites" by Laura Daniel, Oregon Daily Emerald
21st Century
A REAL CHANGE IN THE LAW- Brain dead Indians and so called mascot civil rights fighters have no understanding of how to put this law to use. But for you city and county attorneys better read it carefully. You can be sure some body who has been discriminated against is going to find this link and line his pockets with a gift from your public treasury for hosting an Indian Mascot bigot fest. You will deserve to pay up
Hutchinson Human Relations Commission- Ban on Indian Mascots in Public Places
IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD RACISM BIGOTRY AND
HOW IT HITS HOMEFREE FIRE ZONES?- "We called it Indian Country"
The War Crimes in Vietnam were fueled by historical American hatred for Indians
& the view of Gooks=Indians both less than human beings.Racial hate threat- Little River Kansas Redskin, An all white school district makes criminal acts into entertainment.
District Ban on Indian Nicknames Is Upheld: A federal judge, ruling in Birmingham High, Los Angeles case, supports policy against team names and mascots based on Native Americans.
School Violence Guaranteed by Indian Mascots- Liability of administrators, school boards and teachers in racial conflicts. The reasons parents and students can sue before and after any violent incident.
"The Only Good Indian Is a Dead Indian, History and Meaning of a Proverbial Stereotype", by Wolfgang Meider. (Get you thinking cap on and a big cup of coffee but you can make it through this European perspective on an American issue of bigotry.)
Border town businesses stereotype Native Americans
CHRISTIANS & INDIAN SLAVERY
Listening to the Native American Story With Jewish American Ears
DOCUMENTS AND RESOLUTIONS ON THE INDIAN MASCOT ISSUE
Print them out and take them to your local mascot school! Or print out a WHOLE BUNCH of pages from this site, glue them together and then smack that pro mascot school administrator up the side of the head with them. That's the only way this kind of information is ever going to get near one of his brain cells.
No, just kidding! Remember that empty promises can be the food of hope or the platform for social and legal action in your community. These formal resolutions are here so you can pressure your locals or you can sue them using this information. They don't care about you or your kids but they do care about their money.
US COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS- Resolution against Indian Mascots
Society of Indian Psychologists
Kansas Association for Native American Education
Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, Inc.
American Indian Language and Culture Board; Page1, Page 2
Hutchinson Human Relations Commission- Ban on Indian Mascots in Public Places
National Conference For Community And Justice Opposes The Use Of American Indian Mascots
1600
Puritan War & Genocide of Pequots 1636, King Phillips War 1675
& links to Contemporary Pequot tribal life
FILE A CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLAINT AGAINST A SCHOOL
copyright by Matthew Richter 2000
American Comments Magazine www.iwchildren.org