{"id":11518,"date":"2025-06-03T14:30:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T19:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=11518"},"modified":"2025-06-03T14:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T19:31:38","slug":"mascot-ban-stalls-but-native-backed-land-conservation-bill-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/11518-mascot-ban-stalls-but-native-backed-land-conservation-bill-advances\/","title":{"rendered":"Mascot Ban Stalls But Native-Backed Land Conservation Bill Advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By BRIDGETTE FOX<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"mailto:bfox@capitolnewsillinois.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bfox@capitolnewsillinois.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPRINGFIELD<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Illinois\u2019 legislative session concluded without passage of a Native American K-12 school mascot ban, but another issue sought by Natives will make its way to the governor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite desire from Native Americans in Illinois, the ban on Native imagery for mascots in K-12 schools stalled in the Senate after it made its way out of the House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Read more:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/our-identity-has-been-frozen-in-time-how-native-american-advocates-are-influencing-springfield\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Our identity has been frozen in time\u2019: How Native American advocates are influencing Springfield<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ilga.gov\/legislation\/billstatus.asp?DocNum=1237&amp;GAID=18&amp;GA=104&amp;DocTypeID=HB&amp;LegID=157029&amp;SessionID=114\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House Bill 1237<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s Senate sponsor, Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton, D-Western Springs, said after the bill missed a deadline earlier this session, she was still gathering a consensus from other legislators. But she said many of the concerns she heard about the measure stemmed from the costs associated with schools changing mascots.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe will continue conversations about it and see what we can do with helping them pass it,\u201d Glowiak Hilton said when the bill missed its mid-May deadline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Native American advocates told Capitol News Illinois earlier this year about the importance of improving Native imagery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Read more: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/our-identity-has-been-frozen-in-time-how-native-american-advocates-are-influencing-springfield\/\"><b>\u2018Our identity has been frozen in time\u2019: How Native American advocates are influencing Springfield<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur identity has been frozen in time, and it\u2019s going to stay frozen in time as long as we\u2019re portrayed as mascots and things of the past,\u201d said Matt Beaudet, a citizen of the Montauk Tribe of Indians who was in Springfield to advocate for the bill\u2019s passage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrew Johnson, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and executive director of the Native American Chamber of Commerce of Illinois, said how natives are often portrayed as mascots in school logos has a detrimental effect of \u201ccostuming.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt really is not a sense of honor there,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is not a sense of history. In fact, it\u2019s a perversion of history to think that these mascots are maintaining any kind of that memory of Native people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Ho-Chunk Nation conserving land in Illinois<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A separate bill related to Native interests did make it through both Houses and awaits the governor\u2019s signature.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ilga.gov\/legislation\/billstatus.asp?DocNum=1605&amp;GAID=18&amp;GA=104&amp;DocTypeID=HB&amp;LegID=157764&amp;SessionID=114\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House Bill 1605<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, originally sponsored by Rep. Maurice West, D-Rockford, would amend existing law so tribal nations can join land conservation agreements with land owners.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As land conservators, a tribal nation could maintain the land and have control over what happens to it. Originally, only nonprofits, the state or federal agencies could join land conservation agreements with landowners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation, a nonprofit in Jo Daviess county, brought the idea of land conservation forward to the Ho-Chunk Nation, which is located inside Wisconsin. The Ho-Chunk Nation was not available for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The foundation owns land in the county that holds a cultural site significant to the Ho-Chunk Nation. The nonprofit owns and maintains multiple sites that are important to different tribal nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The foundation\u2019s executive director, Steve Barg, along with a former employee, said they were originally interested in giving the land to the Ho-Chunk, but they said the nation found the idea impractical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey&#8217;re not going to get in a car every week and drive down 4 hours \u2026 to care for these places,\u201d Barg said. \u201cThat&#8217;s just not feasible for them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were also reportedly concerns that Illinoisans would not be receptive to the nation owning land there akin to some worries people had about the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. The Ho-Chunk, like the Prairie Band Potawatomi, own casinos. However, neither nation has expressed any desire to open a casino in Illinois.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Read more:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/potawatomi-land-transfer-advances-in-illinois-house\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Potawatomi land transfer advances in Illinois House<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A conservation agreement offered a clearer path of collaboration, but the groups needed a law change to specifically allow tribal nations to execute one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barg said the Ho-Chunk and the Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation have been working together for 12 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The groups apparently wanted to go forward with a land conservation easement because, if the foundation didn\u2019t exist one day, any provisions agreed to under the agreement would still have to be honored. It differentiates the agreement from a private contract they could have entered instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe want to make sure that the purposes of protecting this land for conservation outlasts our own organization,\u201d Barg said. \u201cIf our own organization were ever to merge with an organization or cease to exist, those conservation easements held on our land by other entities would still protect the mission under which we saw that these lands were preserved.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service that distributes state government coverage to hundreds of news outlets statewide. It is funded primarily by the Illinois Press Foundation and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our initial reporting on Native American issues at the Capitol was part of the <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/illinoispressfoundation.sharepoint.com\/sites\/illinoispress.org-CapitolNewsIllinois\/Shared%20Documents\/Capitol%20News%20Illinois\/_WEEKLY%20STORY%20ASSETS\/250602%20NATIVE%20BILLS\/250529%20WEB%20LAND%20CONSERVATION.docx\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Healing Illinois<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 2025 Reporting Project, \u201cHealing Through Narrative Change: Untold Stories,\u201d made possible by a grant from Healing Illinois, an initiative of the Illinois Department of Human Services and the Field Foundation of Illinois that seeks to advance racial healing through storytelling and community collaborations.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BRIDGETTE FOX Capitol News Illinois bfox@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD \u2013 Illinois\u2019 legislative session concluded without passage of a Native American K-12 school mascot ban, but another issue sought by Natives will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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