Posted on 04/30/2023 12:11:57 PM PDT by thegagline
The profile of a Native American man, a braid trailing down and feather jutting up, is tiled into a high school hallway, dyed into the weight room carpet and laid into the turf of the football field at Salamanca city schools.
School leaders say the omnipresent logo and “Warrior” name for the school athletic teams are sources of pride here, in the only US city built on land leased from a Native American reservation.
But as New York joins states moving to ban schools’ use of Indigenous nicknames and mascots because they diminish Native cultures, the tribe may have the last say over whether the logo stays.
When the state Board of Regents this month voted to prohibit public schools’ use of Indigenous names, it included an exception for districts that receive written approval from a federally recognized tribal nation in New York.
It has put the tribe in an awkward spot. *** While the Seneca Indian Nation’s leader has endorsed the ban, some citizens of the nation want to keep the logo, which was designed by a Seneca artist in the 1970s.
About 38% of students in the public school system south of Buffalo, near the Pennsylvania line, are Native American, mostly citizens of the Seneca tribe.
“The logo really represents us as a community,” said Marijah Skye, a 17-year-old student and Seneca citizen.
Superintendent Mark Beehler said he thinks it’s unfair of the Regents to put any tribal nation in the middle, where its decision could upset students and the community. ***
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
warrior (n.) c. 1300, from Old North French werreier (Old French guerroieor) "a warrior, soldier, combatant, one who wages war," from werreier "wage war," from werre
Only if they use the proper pronouns.
For crying out loud.
Indian mascots was originally a progressive ideology to promote Indian culture in a positive way that had long since been buried in the public schools. Of course THAT didn’t last and now it’s bad.
Sick to death of this woke nonsense.
The left has convinced yet another group to voluntarily erase themselves from history.
DIE is whats happening to american society, we dont even recognize evil when it slaps us in the face.
Well said.
You’re not alone.
Remove the Indian, Keep the Land.
Looks like their Warrior is Green, so all is well in the world of intersectionality.
My high school’s logo is the bald eagle. I’m told that the school board is now trying to contact real eagles to get their permission to continue using the logo.
This has proved difficult, as eagles are a protected species. You really can’t follow them around asking questions.
Is the Flurries still Zok?
Weird. Native Americans were not the only civilization with “warriors.”
Have they contacted the Legal Eagles at the local Bar Association to get their input?
You bet!
Many of them were Crusaders!
I forbid you!
You will speak proper wokeness...
Exactly. Hardly exclusive to indians
Nothing diminishes their culture like alcohol, diabetes and obesity.
When did the Indians copyright the word “Warrior”. I’m sure whitey has been using it a hell of a lot longer than they have been using it.
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