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New York high school to replace Indian mascot


Students at Rhinebeck High School in New York are taking suggestions on a new mascot.

The school has used an Indian head mascot and an "Indians" nickname. Use of the symbol and name have been scaled back over the past two years but hasn't been completed eliminated.

Four years ago, the state ordered public schools to eliminate the use of Indian symbols, imagery and mascots.

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Students take on challenge of replacing mascot (The Rhinebeck Gazette Advertiser 12/2)