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A light pole at the Shawnee Mission North gymnasium parking lot holds a display banner of the school s mascot, while the gymnasium bears the likeness of a Native American wearing a headdress.
The district s board of education voted to end the use of mascots like Indians and Braves because they are racially insensitive. Shawnee Mission North has used their current mascot, which will have to be changed, for 98 years.
Four schools in the Shawnee Mission School District will have new mascots by the end of the school year after the district’s board of education voted unanimously last night in favor of a policy that bans what it calls derogatory or offensive mascots.