{"id":6802,"date":"2025-04-11T08:08:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T13:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=6802"},"modified":"2025-04-11T08:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T13:09:31","slug":"native-american-mascot-ban-clears-illinois-house-heads-to-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/6802-native-american-mascot-ban-clears-illinois-house-heads-to-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Native American Mascot Ban Clears Illinois House, Heads to Senate"},"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;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/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><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPRINGFIELD \u2013 Illinois K-12 schools may soon be required to pick new mascots to replace those that reference Native American names and imagery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That would include logos, team names and mascots which 90 schools throughout the state use, such as the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mtzbraves.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mt. Zion Braves<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cahokiahighschool.bigteams.com\/main\/teamschedule\/id\/3547527\/seasonid\/4834303\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cahokia Comanches,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> according to legislators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ilga.gov\/legislation\/fulltext.asp?DocName=10400HB1237ham004&amp;GA=104&amp;SessionId=114&amp;DocTypeId=HB&amp;LegID=157029&amp;DocNum=1237&amp;GAID=18&amp;SpecSess=&amp;Session=\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House Bill 1237<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> passed in the House on Thursday with a vote of 71-40.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bill points out specific mascots and names like \u201cRedskins, Braves, Chiefs, Chieftains, Tribe, Indians, or any synonymous term\u201d as those being banned. It also applies to logos with Native American feathered headdresses or traditionally Native American weapons, especially if combined with feathers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If signed into law, schools would have to have a new mascot chosen by July 1, 2026. Other big changes, that would cost schools money, have a slightly longer delay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead of requiring schools to buy new athletic uniforms and other school materials with new iconography as soon as the bill passes, schools could keep using those old materials until Sept. 1, 2030, as long as the new names and logo designs have been picked out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is also an exception for any school whose mascot has a direct tie with a federally recognized tribe and the school gets permission from that tribe to continue using the mascot. That consent would have to be renewed every five years, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ilga.gov\/legislation\/fulltext.asp?DocName=10400HB1237ham004&amp;GA=104&amp;SessionId=114&amp;DocTypeId=HB&amp;LegID=157029&amp;DocNum=1237&amp;GAID=18&amp;SpecSess=&amp;Session=\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the bill<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This isn\u2019t the first year the bill\u2019s main sponsor, Rep. Maurice West, D-Rockford, has tried to pass the Native mascot ban.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When West tried in 2020, members of the Native American Chamber of Commerce of Illinois asked him to push for teaching Native American history in schools first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That education bill didn\u2019t make it into law until 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Read more: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/bill-requiring-schools-to-teach-native-american-history-heads-to-senate-floor\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bill requiring schools to teach Native American history heads to Senate floor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis is about the welfare and benefit of our students. It&#8217;s about not harming our students,\u201d said Andrew Johnson, executive director of NACCI, during a March 20 committee hearing. \u201cIt&#8217;s also not about polls, popularity, contests, anecdotes, tradition, honor, DEI, wokeness or political correctness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advocates said they wanted to focus on K-12 schools because they can choose not to be fans of professional sports teams like the Chicago Blackhawks of the NHL, but they can\u2019t choose not to send their children to school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This bill also does not apply to universities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Educators and representatives said the bill would minimize children\u2019s exposure in school to stereotypes about Native Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAt one point, native mascots and logos were the most widespread education about native people in our state,\u201d said Megan Bang, a professor at Northwestern University, during a committee hearing. \u201cThis year is our first time as a state to require teaching about native people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Read more: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/pritzker-signs-bills-expanding-protections-for-native-americans\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pritzker signs bills expanding protections for Native Americans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe contradictions of both having educators teach about real Native people, but continue to perpetuate stereotyped images, sets up for educators to have harder times with young people, and sets in motion contradictory learning objectives for young people as well,\u201d Bang said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the bill was discussed on the House floor, Republicans were united against the bill in their votes after they came back from an hour-long meeting they took during the bill\u2019s debate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIf there&#8217;s bad actors, absolutely let&#8217;s get rid of them. And I will also just leave you with this question,\u201d Travis Weaver, R-Edwards, said. \u201cThis group of people were oppressed, but is oppressed and forgotten better?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aaron Golding, member of the Seneca Nation Beaver Clan and member of the Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative, said in March that Native Americans\u2019 input and concerns are often dismissed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur voices and expertise on these issues are ignored,\u201d Golding said. \u201cSee, when people are taught about our history prior to 1900 only, without an understanding of our contemporary experiences over the most recent 125 years \u2013 and \u2018recent\u2019 is pretty loosely said there \u2013 it&#8217;s easy to dismiss us as ghosts of the past whose needs don&#8217;t matter today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bill now moves to the Senate for consideration.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BRIDGETTE FOX\u00a0\u00a0 Capitol News Illinois\u00a0\u00a0 bfox@capitolnewsillinois.com\u00a0 SPRINGFIELD \u2013 Illinois K-12 schools may soon be required to pick new mascots to replace those that reference Native American names and imagery. 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