A Mukwonago high school is being forced to give up its Indian name and logo courtesy of a state order.
Students of Mukwonago High attempted to show the state that their name and logo was being used in a respectful way, but the state deemed their attempts insufficient and ordered the school to change it within a year. The school has used the name and likeness for 86 years.
Wisconsin newspaper JSOnline reports that the principal, Shawn McNulty, will not contest the ruling by the Department of Public Instruction and is leaving it up to the students and community to find a new team name.
The school has alumni Rain Koepke to thank, a Shawnee tribe member who filed a complaint saying the name and logo stereotyped Indians.
A group with a mile-long name, the Wisconsin Indian Education Association’s Indian Mascot and Logo Taskforce, is scouring Wisconsin schools looking for “stereotypical” Indian-themed school team names and striving to get them changed. So far they have found 28 school team names that they want changed.
Other schools, such as Osseo-Fairchild and Kewaunee, have been hit with the politically-correct axe in the recent past, changing due to complaints filed.
For more information, read the story on JSOnline.
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October 9th, 2010 at 7:13 pm
The school has to give it up because it is disrespectful to talk or think about native people. We have to forget they even existed. The settlers of the wild west weren’t able to wipe them out using guns, so the government will finish off the job using laws. Eventually nobody will even remember the bad things that were done to them and nobody will see them as different. They are being assimilated and it must be good for them, because the government is always right.
October 9th, 2010 at 7:36 pm
As they say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. What better way to represent America than to pay tribute and recognition to the original Native Americans that settled and explored our great nation thousands of years ago.
October 9th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
This is bad news for the school. Not quite sure why these groups go around forcing schools to change their name, but I believe it’s just a hatred of anything not white. Past precedence, for the loss.
July 4th, 2011 at 12:08 pm
Occording to Al “no one will remember the bad things that were done” we will never forget because we are constantly reminded by them to cause trouble.
I did not try to kill any Indians. I did not take their land away.
In the State of Wisconsin they can get any health care they want, go to school for free, are provided free fire and ambulance service, free snow removal, etc. and we have to pay for it. They have their own nation. They should pay for their own services if they do not want to be part of the United States. The schools choose the Indian names to honor them.
Funny, they don’t mind the Indian towns named after them.