Across Michigan, you'll find places with names of Native American origin, reflecting the state's deep Indigenous heritage. Present-day Michigan is the ancestral homeland of Anishinaabe peoples, with ...

BARBERTON, Ohio -- Why hasn’t the fuss over sport teams’ Native American mascots and names gone away, especially since “Chief Wahoo” and the “Indians” of Cleveland baseball and the “Redskins” of ...

President Donald Trump’s social media posts calling for the NFL’s Washington Commanders and Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Guardians to revert to their old names has revived the conversation about ...

President Donald Trump addressed the wave of sports teams that underwent name changes in recent years to remove references to Native American heritage. Trump called the name changes "degrading to the ...

President Donald Trump’s social media posts calling for the NFL’s Washington Commanders and Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Guardians to revert to their old names has revived the conversation about ...

One of the many ways Native American influence shines through the United States is in our place names. In more cases than one may think, geographic names were derived from a Native American word or ...

For Wantagh resident Matt Susco, "Warriors" isn’t just the name of his hometown’s high school sports team. "It’s always been a lifelong sense of pride for us residents, students, since we were ...

For many Native Americans, the decision to replace the former names of Washington’s NFL team and Cleveland’s MLB team was not just symbolic. It was a matter of dignity, safety and cultural survival.

This story has been updated with additional information. Across Michigan, you'll find places with names of Native American origin, reflecting the state's deep Indigenous heritage. Present-day Michigan ...