Yale University Apologizes for Football Booklet with Negative Imagery of Native Americans

NEW HAVEN, CT — Yale University's athletics department is apologizing for a recent football program booklet that included a cover with politically incorrect caricatures of Native Americans, reports NBC Connecticut News.

The school's football team played Dartmouth Saturday, marking the 100th game between the two schools, which led to the booklet's cover artwork that featured thumbnails of past covers. Some of the images on the cover showed "dehumanizing images of redface," stated the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program, according to the Yale Daily News.

In his apology, Yale Athletics Director Thomas Beckett said the cover's images were a violation of the school's "values of mutual respect, equality, and decency," writes USA Today. Beckett vowed to meet with campus groups to discuss the incident and how to avoid it happening again.

Yale ended up defeating Dartmouth 21-13.

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