'They Need To Understand The Harm': How Indian Mascots Affect Native American Students
Quannah Morrison (l) and his father Jamie Morrison (r) stand outside their home in Milton, Mass. on June 2, 2021. Quannah is 17 and plays basketball at Milton High School and club hockey.
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Winchester High School's mascot when Jamie Morrison went there was the Sachems and still was until last year. The associate director of the Urban Scholars Program at UMass Boston, who is Eastern Cherokee, has been trying to get rid of Native American mascots for a long time.
âI witnessed a lot of things at Winchester," he said. "A lot of close friends who were white that grew up and they would dress up. Or their siblings would dress upâ as Indians.