1964, Jan 24 - heap'um big chief Mike

Beatrice Daily Sun   1/24/1964

2010, April 19 - Clinton teaches kids their "tradition" of cultural appropriation. Nice job parents and faculty!

Youtube video still of parents protesting
Native people protested on the other side.



Because Clinton apparently only honors Native people, right?
Here's a few newspaper clippings:

WAR PAINT

SCALPED

MASSACRE

2010, May 29 Native Americans Are People NOT Mascots--Why Clinton Schools Need to CHANGE!!

Youtube video posted by ay No 2 Mascots mcarsm.com

2013, Feb 14th - "We have a long heritage of respect for Native Americans,"

Clinton Community Schools (the "Redskins) and Tecumseh Public Schools (The "Indians") - both of Michigan -  are once again in the spotlight due to their Native-American themed logos. A complaint was filed by the Michigan Department of Civil Rights to the United States Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights (OCR) on February 8th. The complaint asked OCR to order an end to the use of American Indian mascots, names, terms, graphics and/or other imagery as a violation of equal protection for primary and secondary students.

At a meeting soon after, the Tecumseh board said there was no immediate cause for concern. "Just because it's been filed doesn't mean it's going to go anywhere," said Tecumseh Superintendent, Mike McAran.

"We have a long heritage of respect for Native Americans," said Board President Ed Tritt.

In 1989, the school was under fire for its use of war-like images at the Tecumseh school. They changed their logo to a tamer one, but still kept the Native theme.

From 2008 - 2010, a protest was started by two sisters, Elspeth and Kylista Geiger, Native American alumni of Clinton High School, that the "Redskin" logo and imagery was demoralizing and offensive to Indian students. The community took a poll and... the logo continues today.

2013, Feb 22 - Civil rights complaint ignites debate over Native American mascots

By SARAH HULETT • FEB 22, 2013

Marshall High School changed its nickname to the Redhawks nearly a decade ago, but "Redskins" gear still way out-sells "Redhawks" T-shirts and sweatshirts.

From the article:      “In our hearts we will always be Marshall Redskins,” said Greg Gordier over a beer at the local brew pub. He graduated from Marshall High, played cornerback for the football team, and uses the present tense when he refers to the old mascot. “As Redskins, we are not degrading the American Indian. We are immortalizing them. It’s a positive thing.”

To read the entire article, click here:

Belding deciding whether to ditch Redskins mascot

Parents want district to either bring back mascot or choose a new one.. continued here.. 

9.19.2016 

(From the story)

(A mother (Carmen Barker)  started a petition after a former superintendent called her and asked her sons not wear a T-shirt with the Indian head mascot on them for a tournament, and she wanted to know if the school was still the the Redskins.) 

The superintendent explained the shirts weren’t against any school policy, but they wanted to shy away from the controversial mascot and name that some see as offensive. Her son ended up wearing the shirt anyway. But that didn’t resolve the bigger question.

“When we came back from the competition, I asked the superintendent how we could get this on the agenda,” she said. “I wanted to bring it to our board of education and find out what the reasoning was, and are we the Redskins or not.”