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April 27, 2021 6:43 PM Katerina Chryssafis
SPOKANE, Wash. The Spokane Public Schools board is getting ready for a community forum where you can weigh in on North Central’s new mascot. The public meeting comes just a day after Governor Inslee passed a new law banning Native American symbols in public schools.
“Why does a 17-year-old junior in high school have to be doing this work?” said Ivy Pete, junior at North Central High School.
It’s a question Pete asks herself often.
“We’re just at the point where if nobody else is going to do it, those who have the voice need to step up and say something,” said Pete.
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April 27, 2021 10:27 PM Kaitlin Knapp
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SPOKANE, Wash. The symbol of North Central High School must go. Students, staff, parents, community leaders and tribal members all agreed, Tuesday night, the school’s symbol is harmful to the students and the culture.
It is something many people called “Past due.” Getting rid of the name “Indians” from North Central High School.
“Native Americans aren’t ancient. They aren’t gone. They are here and they exist,” said 2019 North Central graduate Kayla Fontana. “Not as a feather, not as a degrading cartoon plastered before the parking lot.”
Many current and past students say the name is a harmful stereotype to Indigenous people.
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COVID-19 ripped through communities east of the Cascades, killing people at twice the rate of Western Washington By Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times
Published: December 28, 2020, 6:00am
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3 Photos Medical staff responds to a rapid response, in which a COVID-19 patient was in medical distress and signaled staff to intervene quickly at Samaritan Healthcare. (Amanda Snyder/The Seattle Times/TNS) Photo Gallery
SOAP LAKE For months, McKay Healthcare and Rehab staff kept its elderly residents safe from COVID-19. But in late October, the virus slipped into the center’s 8-decade-old building.
By mid-December, 15 of the 31 residents had died from the disease.