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Washington State Wants Schools to Ban Native American Mascots. If the Washington State Board of Education has its way, high schools across the state will no longer count Warriors, Braves, and Redskins among their mascots. The state board passed a resolution last Wednesday encouraging districts to stop using Native American mascots, according to ABC affiliate KOMO-TV, in Seattle.
The Native American name controversy is an ongoing discussion about the changing terminology used by indigenous peoples of the Americas to describe themselves, as well as how they prefer to be referred to by others.Preferred terms vary primarily by region and age.uring the latter half of the 20th century and the rise of the Indian rights movement, the United States government responded by proposing the use of the term  Native American , to recognize the primacy of indigenous peoples' tenure in the nation.