BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) — A fund is helping remove offensive depictions of Native Americans in city buildings, schools and monuments across Michigan.
The Native American Heritage Fund awarded a nearly $335,000 grant Friday to the Belding school district to remove Redskin imagery formerly used as a mascot. The district switched to the Belding Black Knights mascot in March.
The Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi says the fund is intended to “replace or revise mascots and imagery” deemed offensive or conveying inaccurate representations of Native Americans. The fund’s board approved grants for the first time this year.
Battle Creek was awarded about $3,400 to replace a stained-glass window in city hall that depicts what’s believed to be a white settler clubbing a Native American.
The grants will be approved for disbursement next month.
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Why don’t we just give America back to the Indians? Either we are the America we are or we should just all kill ourselves and let the Indians have it all. If not, we will just keep giving these minorities more and more and more. When will it stop? There will never be an American society again. Every tiny group wants what they want and will just keep all the division going to benefit themselves. I am looking forward to being required by congressional law to learn to speak Spanish as it will undoubtedly be our official language because some Latino immigrant will demand it so it will be so!
The logo is actually from the Pokagon Band Potawatomi not the Nottawaseppi Band, but it would be great if Pokagons joined the Heritage Fund.
Thanks! We’ll fix it.