Change Manteo Mascots

08/31/2023

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Congratulations to our friends Retire the Red Raider for their forthcoming meeting with the North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs on Friday Sept 15! They'll be speaking to the commissioners about efforts over the past 3+ years and asking for support in changing state law to prohibit offensive mascots.

They are welcoming additional attendees to show that their coalition is strong. If you or anyone you know can be in Pembroke at 10am on Sept 15, please join them!

On Friday, September 15th (note the postponement from the original date of Sept. 1st), Retire the Red Raider has been added to the agenda of the North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs' fall meeting. We'll be speaking to the commissioners about our efforts over the past 3+ years and asking for t...

04/22/2023

“In 1992, she hung above one such canvas a series of objects featuring racist Native stereotypes, including a baseball cap from the Cleveland Indians. With a twist of dry humor, she titled her piece, which stretched 14 feet long, “Trade (Gifts for Trading Land With White People).”

After working tirelessly to “break the buckskin ceiling,” the artist and activist comes to the Whitney with a retrospective that redefines what “American” means.

04/14/2021

At the April 2021 North Carolina State Board of Education Meeting, the NC State Advisory Council on American Indian Education recommended that all districts review and implement local policies related to the selection of mascots given the known detrimental effects of American Indian mascots.

Livestream of the called meeting of the State Board of Education. The minutes and actions from the meeting will be available on the State Board of Education ...

02/13/2021

This document by Dr. Susan Faircloth is a visual list of every North Carolina public school logo using American Indians as mascots. By simply listing the logos and names, it puts into perspective the caricature nature of these mascots.

12/14/2020

"The Cleveland baseball franchise has been known as the Indians since 1915, but Native American groups and others have for decades opposed the use of Indigenous names, mascots and imagery for sports teams, insisting they are demeaning and racist." Dare County Schools

The decision comes amid a wider push for sports teams to stop using Native American names and imagery as team names and mascots.

11/30/2020

Native American history IS American History, erasing the Indigenous people of this continent who still live today as 574 federally recognized tribes is not an accurate teaching of history.

https://www.nepm.org/post/conn-bill-would-require-native-american-studies-public-school-lessons

11/24/2020

Article published today in the Raleigh News & Observer by Andrew Carter, featuring interviews with community member Ebony Selby, initiative member Holly Overton, and Chief of the Algonquian Indians of NC Marilyn Berry Morrison:

Many North Carolina schools have shed American Indian-inspired mascots and imagery over the past 20 years. The Manteo Redskins persist, though, despite a movement for change in a moment of reckoning.

11/24/2020

This article discusses the misrepresentation of Indigenous culture in North Carolina school curriculum. Also want to thank Metrolina Native American Association and Retire the Red Raider for hosting tonight's American Indian Heritage Month Discussion!

What are students learning about Native American history? All the wrong things, says some Native Americans who find it “exhausting” to keep explaining themselves to the world.

11/22/2020

"This episode talks with Wampanoag scholars Paula Peters and Linda Coombs, who tell us the real story of Thanksgiving, from an Indigenous Perspective."

This episode talks with Wampanoag scholars Paula Peters and Linda Coombs, who tell us the real story of Thanksgiving, from an Indigenous Perspective. Thanksgiving is a time for people to come together with their families and give thanks for the blessings in their lives; but the American holiday is r...

11/10/2020

Here is the July 2020 Letter to the Editor in The Coastland Times by former State Board of Education member and former North Carolina Association of Educator’s president, Eddie Davis, who strongly suggests "for moral and educational reasons that Manteo should not continue... [to] use a mascot name that every dictionary defines as an offensive racial slur."

To the Editor:For several years I have been suggesting that the Dare County Board of Education retire the “Redskin” mascot at Manteo High School.