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Jo Lakota drove to Oklahoma nearly 50 years ago looking for remnants of the Peoria tribe. What she learned surprised the community.
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East Peoria Community High School administrators are examining their usage of Native American imagery with the “Raiders” nickname for their sports teams.
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East Peoria Community High School's administration has forecasted a debate on the school's usage of Native American iconography on the horizon for quite some time. Now, the district is reckoning with how to tackle it as the issue hits home.
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State legislation expected to come up this year may force East Peoria Community High School to change the Native American mascot the Raiders have used…
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There’s another new effort to honor the memory of Chief Illiniwek during this week’s University of Illinois homecoming celebration -- a decade after the U…
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Native American bones and funerary objects that have been in a suburban Chicago museum collection for decades will be returned to a Michigan-based tribe.…