Trump’s education secretary threatens to pull funding from NY over its Native American mascot ban Indigenous residents on Long Island have called Massapequa’s mascot problematic as it depicts ...

“It’s difficult finding community as a Native American living in New York,” Mr. Bread said. “I might be walking around Brooklyn and be the only Native American in a several-mile radius.

A view of Massapequa High School in Massapequa, N.Y., on April 25, 2025. The district resisted attempts by New York state to force it to change its mascot, which depicts a Native American.