Feds Toss Michigan Complaint To Ban Indian Mascots For Sports Teams

Feds Toss Out Complaint Against Michigan Sports Mascots
COLUMBUS, OH - JANUARY 1: Powwow attendee Sonny Hensley holds an anti-mascot button to protest using Indians as mascots for sports teams at the 10th Annual New Years Eve Sobriety Powwow January 1, 2003 in Columbus, Ohio. The Ohio Center for Native American Affairs sponsored the event, attracting people from several U.S. states as well as Canada. (Photo by Mike Simons/Getty Images)
COLUMBUS, OH - JANUARY 1: Powwow attendee Sonny Hensley holds an anti-mascot button to protest using Indians as mascots for sports teams at the 10th Annual New Years Eve Sobriety Powwow January 1, 2003 in Columbus, Ohio. The Ohio Center for Native American Affairs sponsored the event, attracting people from several U.S. states as well as Canada. (Photo by Mike Simons/Getty Images)

American Indian mascots, names and imagery will stay in Michigan schools for now.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has dismissed a complaint filed against 35 Michigan school districts that alleged that the use of such imagery is discriminatory.

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