Massapequa High School students are painting a sprawling mural of their school mascot, a Native American chief wearing a colorful feathered headdress, in apparent defiance of a state order. McLoganTV reports.
"School districts should not be promoting soon-to-be retired indigenous team names, logos, or mascots in any capacity as they are also a violation of the Dignity For All Students Act," said the state board of education. to fight the ban"We stand beside you. We are Massapequa and we will not sit idly by while an unelected group of officials tries to remove our history," said the Massapequa Board of Education.
"Where does it stop? What's next?" said Assembly Member Michael Durso."There is so much pride in our community for the Native American culture and we'd really like to keep it. Obviously we want to do it respectfully." "Once a Chief, always a Chief," a student said."I think it's fun. I think it's inclusive to everyone."
"There is no chief who has ever looked like that. It is a fraudulent symbol. It is a disrespectful defiance of the law and hurtful towards the Native community of Long Island," said Chief Harry Wallace, of the Poospatuck Reservation. "I totally understand where the people are coming from, the Native Americans who were born here," a student said.
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