Those Colonial Legacies

Epithets, Mascots, White Supremacy

Native American children who were forced into U.S. boarding schools

Mascots

The high school my daughter attends has a Native American name. The name of the school and the school mascot. In fact, most of the schools in the school district have such names.

The names come from the local history. The established, long standing native population that had been living here for…