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Resources

Books

Dancing at halftime by Carol Spindel

Indians Are Us?: Culture and Genocide in Native North America

                                  by Ward Churchill

Playing Indian           by Phillip Deloria, Jr.

Team Spirits: The Native American Mascots

                                  by Edited by C. Richard King
                                  and Charles Fruehling Springwood

Videos

In Whose Honor?      Jay Rosenstein      July 1997

This is the video documentary which features Charlene Teter's in her efforts addressing the mascot issue at The University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

Websites
www.aistm.org
www.allarm.org
www.indiancountry.com

“We don't view it as looking down on the race…
We're not trying to make light of anyone or certainly
Not ridiculing anyone.”

Jim Arganbright
Athletic director at Coshocton H.S., Coshoction, Ohio (2003) which uses an “Indian head” doormat to
compliment its ethnic slur nickname.

“The high school's mascot is a student dressed in a buckskin outfit who wears a mask with a big nose, large lips, large eyes, bigh cheeks and long, black hair.” “If we thought it was offensive, we wouldn't do it.”

Sam Cook, Principal
Watkins Memorial H.S.
Pataskala, Ohio (2003)

“We simply chose an Indian as emblem. We could have just as chosen any uncivilized animal.”

Eighth Grade student writing about his school's mascot (1997)

“Cowboys finish off Redskins”

Headline from a 1998 Washington Post sports article