Roseburg School Board meeting livestream from April 28, 2021.
Credit Roseburg Public Schools' on YouTube
School board members had to unanimously approve a motion to eliminate the “Roseburg Indians”, and the vote fell one short of that at a meeting this week. Director Charles Lee was the dissenting vote.
Amanda Mendoza is a member of Roseburg High’s Class of 2001, and is Muskogee Creek, Choctaw, and Cherokee heritage. For the past year, she's circulated a petition to have the "Indians" removed, as major sports franchises in Washington D.C. and Cleveland have done with their Native American-themed team names. Talking to KLCC, Mendoza shared her disappointment with the meeting’s outcome.