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 fiel…
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.
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. “I’m really not comfortable going to the Seneca Nation and having them potentially be the bad guy here,” Beehler said in an interview. 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.A push to do away with such mascots gained momentum with a campaign targeting the name of the NFL’s Washington team, which in 2022 Seneca President Rickey Armstrong Sr.
Oregon, Washington state and Connecticut are among those with similar laws, forbidding schools to use Native American nicknames unless they have permission from a tribe. after the neighboring Mohegan Tribe, owner of the Mohegan Sun casino, said it would prefer a different name. Salamanca resident Michala Redeye, a Seneca citizen, said Native and non-Native residents have largely united around keeping the logo.
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