'Honoring a terrorist.' Mass. faces reckoning with Indigenous school mascots, state seal
No other race has to deal with their image being used as a mascot, said Faries Gray, Sagamore of the Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag.
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No other race has to deal with their image being used as a mascot, said Faries Gray, Sagamore of the Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag.
Slowly but surely — and not without opposition — age-old efforts to change images of Native Americans that many view as offensive have gained new momentum across Massachusetts, sparking conversations
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Twenty-three schools still use Native American mascots, with names like the Indians and the Redmen.
The 23 schools in Massachusetts that use an image of an indigenous person as their school mascot would have to start looking for new names and logos under a bill that advocates are hoping will get passed this session.