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A clash broke out between local pride and cultural sensitivity in Masabikua, Long Island, which sparked the debate about the original photos in sports. The controversy revolves around the heads of high school in Masabikua, who attracted the amulet – an original American figure in the image of the head – criticism.
Adam Drexler, a former hockey player in Chifs and a member of Chickasaw Nation, was proudly wearing the team shirt. However, the increasing awareness of his original heritage has turned his point of view, which led him to see the amulet as a problem.
This local conflict has escalated into a federal investigation. The Trump administration is studying whether New York State officials distinguish against Massapequa by threatening to block funding. The city has challenged the mandate of the country that requires the retirement of the original American amulet and the names of the teams, which led to the confrontation of the legal confrontation.
“There was no tribe of East Mississippi, which wore a headscarf – at all,” said Drexler, 60, who was adopted and raised by a white Jewish family. “How can you argue in a symbol that has no importance or relevant here, while at the same time you claim that you honor and respect the culture and history of people whose city was named after?”
It is difficult to miss the original American photos about Massapequa, a coastal jam, 40 miles (64 km) east of Manhattan, where about 90 % of the population of eggs.
The Chiefs logo is shown prominently on signs of decorating the buildings of the Police and Fire Department. In recent years, students drew a colored mural with the logo and the name of the team on a commercial building next to the high school in protest against the change in the amulet.
A few minutes by car, next to the city’s post office, a statue of an original American character wearing the poured head covering towers over those who depict buffalo, horse and pole totem.
“When you think about Massapequa, you think about the presidents,” said Forest Bennett, a 15 -year -old high school student.
New York is trying to rid the original American amulet schools that date back more than two decades to the administration of Republican Governor George Pataki, and in 2022 he gave provinces until the end of the academic year to abide by them.
Massapequa was among the four school regions in the Long Island that filed a federal lawsuit challenging the embargo, on the pretext that their choice of the names of the teams and the amulet was protected through the first amendment.
The provinces can seek an exemption from the United States if they obtain approval from an original American tribe, but state officials say Massapequa instead of silence “for years.
The local school council refused to comment this week, instead, in reference to a statement on Friday, praising the investigation conducted by the Federal Education Agency, which President Donald Trump moved to dismantling in recent weeks.
Trump, for his part, has made repeated visits to Long Island in recent years as the suburbs area has been transformed. Last spring, Massapequa visited the following New York City police officer.
Trump wrote in a modern position of social media: “Forcing them to change the name, after all these years, is ridiculous, and in fact, an insult to our great Indian population,” Trump wrote in a modern position of social media. A few days later, the Massapequa Chiefs jacket at the Oval Office. “I don’t see the heads of Kansas City changing their name any time soon!”
The heads of the American Football Association have grabbed their names despite the years of protest by some of the indigenous American activists. Five years ago, the team prevented the fans from wearing head or face covers for the coating of the original Americans.
Meanwhile, other professional teams, including Washington Washington Redzkins (now leaders) and Cleveland Indian (now guardians) on baseball (now guardians), adopted new titles and slogans.
Along the restaurants and shops next to Massapequa High, students and parents insisted that the team’s name and amulet are aimed at honoring Massapequa, who were part of the wider Lenape, or people who lived in the northern United States and Canada for thousands of years before it spoils European decomposition.
“It is not that we are trying to do anything that is not respected,” said Christina Zapatino, a mother of two children. “In fact, I will be honored if my face is, do you know what I mean?”
Lucas Rumberg, a 15 -year -old student, ignored criticism that the school logo reflects the traditional clothes of the Central West tribe, not the clothes that Lynap people eventually wear to move beyond the West by colonial settlers and then the American government forces with the expansion of the nation.
“Although it is not necessarily what it looks here, I feel still conveying that we respect the original Americans,” said Romberg. “I get that people may be insulted, but I feel that it is so much that it should stay.”
But this refusal position is exactly the reason that the stereotypes are offensive, says Joseph Peres, director of indigenous American studies and indigenous population at Stone Brock University, also in Long Island.
“It seems as if this picture was brief for any and all Indians,” said Cherokee Nation’s citizen. “This reduces us of a kind, instead of photographing us as distinctive people.”
Joy Vampini, a member of the Indian tribe in Dilayer, who works in the Indian Council of New York, a non -profit institution that provides health care for indigenous Americans, says that the Indian amulet also contributes to the opinion that the indigenous peoples are the remains of the past, and not living societies facing urgent threats today, a non -profit institution that provides health care for the indigenous Americans.
“This disposal of humanity is not harmful: it directly contributes to the reason for ignoring or reducing our struggles,” said a 29 -year -old population, noting that tribal societies carry high rates of poverty, insufficient housing and lack of access to clean water and access to limited education, among other challenges.
John Kane, a member of the Mohok tribe in New York State in New York State, who has pushed provinces throughout the state for years to change their names and the Mohok’s amulet in New York State, which prompted the regions across the state for years to change their names and the Mohok in the state of New York, which pushed the regions across the state for years to change the Mohok tribe in New York State in New York State, N The The joyful amulet also blocks the dark Masabecoa legacy of violence against indigenous Americans.
He said that the city, after all, was a site for a massacre in which dozens of men, women and children were killed by Europeans in the seventeenth century.
“They are not trying to honor us,” Kane said. “That is why the slogan does not care,” Kane said. “So the idea that this is a kind of honor for us? I mean, come. It is a ridiculous suggestion to suggest it.”