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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.
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Northborough-Southborough Votes To Retire Tomahawk Imagery From Algonquin Regional High School
American Football and Helmet on the Field at Sunset
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The Northborough-Southborough Regional School Committee voted on Wednesday night to drop the use of Native American imagery for Algonquin Regional High School s sports teams.
In a 9-0 decision, the ten-member committee agreed to follow the recommendation of a study group made up of students, the school principal and other community members to stop the using Tomahawks as their logo and nickname, which has been in place since the school s inception. One member was not present at the time of the vote.