Calvin Hedrick News Today

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Many Catholic schools are abandoning sports mascots that use Native American nicknames or imagery. But as the principal at one school in Indiana told NCR, "There are really mixed feelings."

Sam Wasson / Getty Images Originally published on December 17, 2020 10:33 pm When Virginia Hedrick first heard about the coronavirus circulating on cruise ships off the coast of California back in March, it made her think back to some of the first ships of European settlers that arrived on American shores centuries ago, also teeming with disease. Various outbreaks and epidemics spread across the continent in the following centuries, particularly measles and smallpox, and Indigenous people...

Sam Wasson / Getty Images Originally published on December 16, 2020 10:00 pm When Virginia Hedrick first heard about the coronavirus circulating on cruise ships off the coast of California back in March, it made her think back to some of the first ships of European settlers that arrived on American shores centuries ago, also teeming with disease. Various outbreaks and epidemics spread across the continent in the following centuries, particularly measles and smallpox, and Indigenous people...

Sam Wasson/Getty Images toggle caption Sam Wasson/Getty Images An American flag with an image of a Native American on it in ToHajiilee Indian Reservation in New Mexico. In California, a vaccine allocation committee is considering taking historical injustice into account in advance of a statewide rollout. Sam Wasson/Getty Images When Virginia Hedrick first heard about the coronavirus circulating on cruise ships off the coast of California back in March, it...