Wis. school's Indian logo still a sore subject

WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 2003

Two Indian students in Wisconsin say they were the target of racist slurs for opposing their school's Chieftain logo.

Sage and Molly Montana are members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of South Dakota. They attend the Osseo-Fairchild High School in Osseo, Wisconsin, whose logo is an Indian head.

The local community is divided over the use of the logo, which was voted down in a public vote but then reinstated by the school board. The father of the two girls says he will file suit against the logo.

A review by the Associated Press found that two-thirds of the 58 public schools in Wisconsin with Indian mascots have made some sort of change over the past decade.

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The profile of the American Indian chief wearing a headdress is painted on a wall of the Osseo-Fairchild High School gym (AP 7/2)
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