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Warroad's 'Warriors' nickname, logo will stay after surviving legislative challenge
There was no objection to the retention of the nickname and logo from any of Minnesota's 11 tribal governments nor from the state's Tribal Nations Education Committee before the Dec. 15 deadline.
By Jess Myers
December 18, 2023 at 3:23 PM
WARROAD, Minn. — A statewide lobbying and education effort to spread the word about the origins of Warroad High School’s Warriors nickname and logo appears to have been a success, according to the school superintendent.
Shawn Yates was watching the clock late Friday night, Dec. 15, waiting for midnight to come. When the big and little hands both landed on 12 with no notification of objection to the nickname and logo either from any of the 11 federally-recognized tribal governments in Minnesota, nor from the Tribal Nations Education Committee, Yates and countless community members who have advocated for remaining the Warriors celebrated quietly.
“It appears that we’ve passed through the hoops that they’ve set forward, so I would certainly hope that we are in the clear, so to speak,” said Yates, who has been the school’s superintendent since 2019.
The “hoops” he mentioned were set forth by the state Legislature in the spring of 2023, as language in the omnibus K-12 education bill that passed the Minnesota Senate and House, and was signed into law by Gov. Tim Walz, sought to force the small handful of high schools using Native American nicknames and logos to change. ...
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