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Okemos School District Dropping Chiefs Nickname | Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM

By Hannah DeRuyter
May 26, 2021
A Michigan school district is following the same steps as other schools in the state and removing its nickname as Chiefs.
The Okemos Public School Board of Education voted Monday (May 24) to stop using the name Chiefs or Chieftains.
Lansing State Journal, the board plans to pick a new name and mascot by 2023. In the meantime, the name drop can cost the school district more than $400,000 to remove the name and images from school buildings, uniforms, and other portions of the school, like the turf football field.
The name originally came from Native American leader ....

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Okemos schools votes to nix 'Chiefs' nickname, pick replacement by 2023

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OKEMOS Okemos student-athletes will no longer compete as the Chiefs after district leaders cast a vote 30 years in the making.
The Okemos Public Schools Board of Education voted unanimously Monday to stop using the Chiefs nickname, which an increasing number of students, alumni and residents say is an offensive caricature of indigenous people.
The board hopes to adopt a new mascot by 2024.
The decision comes after decades of discussion surrounding Okemos Public Schools moniker, which was picked for the town of Okemos namesake, Chief Okemos.
Superintendent John Hood was the most recent district leader to consider a name change for the district late last year. But discussions surrounding the nickname and mascot date at least to the mid-1990s, when Katie Cavanaugh, secretary for the Board of Education, was an Okemos High School student. ....

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'Chiefs' no more: Okemos school board votes to nix nickname; will adopt replacement by 2023

Chiefs no more: Okemos school board votes to nix nickname, adopt replacement by 2023
Mark Johnson, Lansing State Journal
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The scoreboard and signage at Okemos High School s soccer field, seen April 29, 2021.
OKEMOS Okemos student-athletes will no longer compete as the Chiefs after district leaders cast a vote 30 years in the making.
The Okemos Public Schools Board of Education voted unanimously Monday to stop using the Chiefs nickname, which an increasing number of students, alumni and residents say is an offensive caricature of indigenous people.
The board hopes to adopt a new mascot by 2023.
The decision comes after decades of discussion surrounding Okemos Public Schools moniker, which was picked for the town of Okemos namesake, Chief Okemos. ....

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Okemos board votes to nix 'Chiefs' nickname, pick replacement by 2023

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OKEMOS Okemos student-athletes will no longer compete as the Chiefs after district leaders cast a vote 30 years in the making.
The Okemos Public Schools Board of Education voted unanimously Monday to stop using the Chiefs nickname, which an increasing number of students, alumni and residents say is an offensive caricature of indigenous people.
The board hopes to adopt a new mascot by 2023.
The decision comes after decades of discussion surrounding Okemos Public Schools moniker, which was picked for the town of Okemos namesake, Chief Okemos.
Superintendent John Hood was the most recent district leader to consider a name change late last year. But discussions surrounding the nickname and mascot date at least to the mid-1990s, when Katie Cavanaugh, secretary for the Board of Education, was an Okemos High School student. ....

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