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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