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California goes to war against ‘Indians’

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California has solved all of its other problems, of course, so now it has gone to war against high school mascots. 

In 2024, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 3074, a law that prevents schools from using any “derogatory Native American term” in their names. 

Not content with the ban on “Redskins,” which Newsom’s predecessor Jerry Brown signed into law in 2015, the new law banned the terms “Apaches, Big Reds, Braves, Chiefs, Chieftains, Chippewa, Comanches, Indians, Savages, Squaw, and Tribe.”

There are only two exceptions: Public schools that are run by Native American tribes are allowed to use these names; and schools that obtain the “written consent from a local federally recognized tribe to use a derogatory Native American term for the school or an athletic team name, mascot, or nickname.”

The law doesn’t say what........

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