Yuma public schools’ sports teams will be known as just that — not the Aggies, not the Yetis, not the Pioneers, just Yuma — for the foreseeable future after dropping the “Indians” mascot this year to comply with Colorado's law.
since 2005, citing negative effects on all students, particularly American Indian young people.
“Blindsided would be too strong a word, but we did not anticipate this law would come and give us a year to eliminate our mascot that we’d had for 85 years,” Brown said. “I just didn’t feel that it was a tribute or an honor for a school to be called the Indians when we’re on former native land,” Price said.
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