The Washington football team isnt the only one with the
offensive Redskins moniker. But on February 4, students at Cooperstown
Central School decided their school would be one less with the offensive
nickname.
Cooperstown, New York is home to the Baseball Hall of Fame and
where James Fenimore Cooper, author of Last of the Mohicans, grew
up.
Replacement
nicknames were voted on by studentssome of the possibilities
include Coyotes, Deerslayers, Hawkeyes, Pathfinders and Wolves,
reported The Daily Star. There were also a number a write-in votes
to keep Redskins, which has been the schools mascot since
the 1920s.
I am convinced the time has come to make a change,
Dr. David Borgstom, the district board of education president, told
The Daily Star before the students voted. We cannot continue
on a path of recognizing the importance of diversity education,
and cultural sensitivity and continue to be called the Redskins.
The school board will ultimately decide what the new nickname
will be. The Daily Star reported in January that the colors and
logo, which is a silhouette of the Indian Hunter statue
by John Quincy Adams Ward, would likely remain the same.
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