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Camanche Schools to Drop Indian Mascot at End of School Year
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On Monday evening, the Camanche school board voted to remove the school districts Indian mascot at the end of the 2020-2021 school year. According to KWQC, the school board voted 5-to-1 with one person not present to vote, to remove Indian as the mascot and nickname for the school.
The removal of the Indian mascot comes after several years of recommendations from school agencies and Native American groups to address and remove the mascot.
The Camanche School District has published a timeline of the use of the Indian mascot which references times teams at every level have removed and/or addressed the use of the Indiana mascot. In that timeline, they also reference times Camanche has been recommended to remove the mascot and has been called on by Native American groups to remove Indian as the mascot.