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Native American Headdresses Return As PA School Reverts To Racist Past After Zoom Meeting Native American Headdresses Return As PA School Reverts To Racist Past After Zoom Meeting
Native American Headdresses Return As PA School Reverts To Racist Past After Zoom Meeting A Pennsylvania school board overturned two previous rulings on its use of a Native American Mascot and using the term "Red," returning to its racist roots. Less than nine months after removing the mascot of a Native American man in a feathered headdress, the Bellefonte Area School District of Centre County will return to being known as the “Red Raiders," which the school had been known as for 80 years prior to the two April 2021 motions. The lively debate between the community members and the board over the issues took place over a four-hour long Zoom meeting. "For the last few years you h…

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