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Thursday evening, the New York State Education Department ordered all school districts in the state to remove “Indian” mascots and associated Native American imagery from the public school system.
New York state s education commissioner is considering an appeal from residents in an upstate New York school district. It s a case that about 70 school districts, including one in Cayuga
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An update now to a story we brought you yesterday about the fate of Cambridge Central School s Native American mascot and moniker. A final decision is still some time off.
The Washington County community has been debating whether to drop its Indian logo and mascot, after several professional sports teams banished their old images and associations as part of the national racial reckoning. People living in the district remain bitterly divided over whether the Indian should be retired.
Native American activist John Kane attended CCS from the third grade until he graduated from high school in 1978. He appeared before the board last fall, and says it looked at that time like a solution was in the works.