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Lists of Organizations FOR and AGAINST Race-based Nicknames/logos

COMPLETE List FOR PARTIAL List AGAINST

‘Indian’ Nicknames/logos ‘Indian’ Nicknames/logos

Advocates for American Indian Children (CA)

The Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians
American Counseling Association
American Indian Language and Culture Education
Board
American Indian Mental Health Association (MN)
American Indian Movement
American Indian Opportunities Industrialization
Center of San Bernardino County
American Indian Student Services at the Ohio State
University
American Jewish Committee
American Sociological Association
American Psychological Association
Asian American Journalists Association
Associated Students Council of San Diego State U.
Association on American Indian Affairs
BRIDGES - Building Roads Into Diverse Groups
Empowering Students
Buncombe County Native American Intertribal
Association (North Carolina)
Calvert Investment Group
Center for Artistic Revolution (CAR)
Center for the Study of Sports in Society
Cincinnati Zapitista Coalition
COLOR - Community One Love One Race
Committee to End Cultural Genocide (St. Cloud
State University)
Concerned American Indian Parents (MN)
Council for Indigenous North Americans (Univ. of
Southern Maine)
Eagle and Condor Indigenous Peoples' Alliance
Fontana Native American Indian Center, Inc.
Governor's Interstate Indian Council
Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa
Indians
Greater Tulsa Area Indian Affairs Commission
Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council
Gun Lake Band of Potawatomi Indians
HONOR - Honor Our Neighbors Origins and
Rights
Hutchinson Human Relations Commission
Illinois Native Bar Association
Illinois State University Student Government Assn
Institute of American Indian Arts
Inter-Ethnic Children's Council (Los Angeles)
Inter-Faith Council on Corporate Responsibility
(ICCR)
Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes
(Composed of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muskogee
(Creek), Cherokee, and Seminole Nations)
Iowa Civil Rights Commission
Juaneño Band of Mission Indians
Kansas Association for Native American Education
Latino Children's Action Council (Los Angeles)
League of United Latin American Citizens
(LULAC)
Little River Band of Ottawa Indians
Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians
Maryland Commission on Indian Affairs
Mascot Abuse San Francisco Bay Area
Medicine Wheel Intertribal Association (LA)
Menominee Tribe of Indians (Wisconsin)
Michigan Civil Rights Commission
Michigan Education Association
State of Michigan, State Board of Education
Minnesota Indian Education Association
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Board
Minnesota State Board of Education
Modern Language Association
Morning Star Institute
NAACP
NAES College (Native American Educ’l Services)
National Association of Black Journalists
National Association of Hispanic Journalists
National Association of Social Workers
National Coalition on Racism in Sports and the
Media
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
National Conference of Christians and Jews
National Conference for Community and Justice
National Congress of American Indians
National Education Association
National Indian Education Association
Native American Caucus of the California
Democratic Party
Native American House, UIUC
Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio
Native American Journalists Association
Native American International Caucus of the
United Methodist Church
Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs
New Hampshire State Board of Education

(Note that the left column is empty because no
comparable American Indian, educational,
psychological, civil rights, religious, or
professional organization has passed a
resolution endorsing the general concept of
race-based ‘Indian’ nicknames in schools.)
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(Source: American Indian Sports Team Mascots, http://aistm.org/fr.groups.htm plus additions.)
Note: there are additional organizations opposing ‘Indian’ nicknames not on the AISTM list.
New York State Education Department
Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi
North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs
North Carolina State Advisory Council on Indian
Education
North Dakota Indian Education Association
North Dakota State University Student Senate
Office of Native American Ministry, Diocese of
Grand Rapids
Ohio Center for Native American Affairs
Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin
Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.
Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative
Rainbow Coalition
San Bernardino/Riverside Counties Native
American Community Council
Students Making All Races Tolerant (SMART)
Society of Indian Psychologists of the Americas
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Southern California Indian Center
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
St. Cloud State University - American Indian Center
Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians
Tennessee Chapter of the National Coalition for the
Preservation of Indigenous Cultures
Tennessee Commission of Indian Affairs
Tennessee Native Veterans Society
Unified Coalition for American Indian Concerns
(VA)
Unitarian Universalist Assn of Congregations
United Church of Christ
The United Indian Nations of Oklahoma
United Methodist Church
United States Commission on Civil Rights
Virginia American Indian Cultural Resource Center
Western North Carolina Citizens for an End to
Institutionalized Bigotry
Wisconsin Conference United Church of Christ
Wisconsin Council of Churches
Wisconsin Educational Association Council
(WEAC)
Wisconsin Indian Education Association
WIEA "Indian" Mascot and Logo Taskforce (WI)
Wisconsin State Human Relations Association
Woodland Indian Community Center-Lansing
Youth ‘Indian’ Mascot and Logo Taskforce (WI)
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