When we talked about the Mascots of the universities we only looked at how natives fought against this and how people who were not Indians misrepresented them. I went to Shawnee Mission North. They are the Indians. When all of this went public, the school district got a letter from a local tribe that said that no matter what happened we were to keep our mascots.
Now I understand why it is that some tribes get upset with schools, but why are there no studies done on the tribes and the people that want to let the schools keep the mascots that they always have had? There has to be a reason why some tribes are wanting the schools to keep them and others don't.
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The mascot controversies with sports teams are important, but it's true that some tribes want schools to keep their mascots, or have given them permission. In a course I took last year on the plain indians, we got into a rather heated discussion over which teams should be able to keep their mascot names; people did have some interesting views, like should the New Orleans Saints be changed because it offended religious people? It sounds a little dumb, but today it really is so hard to distinguish what's acceptable and what's not. Although I agree that there are certain mascots that could be considered offensive, as time goes on it becomes harder to decide what is right and wrong.
I too was curious about this. Was there any schools which had some sort of native American symbol or person, which actually allowed and at the same time didn't mind the use of the mascot?
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