Retire the Millis Mascot

"Secondary school systems and educational systems that promote ethnic stereotypes – despite the civil rights movement that took place decades ago – still have not fully embraced racial equality and continue to do an injustice and disservice the young impressionable students under their guidance,” the letter says. “Their failure to take corrective action by immediately banning Native names and mascots only serves to perpetuate the negative and prejudicial treatment toward Native Americans and the contribution we have made and continue to make across the United States." - The Tribal Council of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe

Millis is no different than other school district. It's time to change the name.

// Millis, MA Public School District continues to use the mascot, "The Mohawk" to represent their Middle and High School. Earlier this year, the school committee voted 3-2 in favor of keeping the name while retiring previous indigenous based images and logos and adopting new native curriculum. We still think it's time for the name to be retired. End race-based mascots. Retire the Mohawk.//

Millis should have been on this years list of schools that changed their mascot.

• NCAI applauds the recent legislation in Colorado and Nevada to ban Native “themed” school mascots, logos, and names. According to our mascot tracking database, there are 28 schools in Colorado and three schools in Nevada with Native “themed” mascots. Nationally, there are still more than 1,900 schools employing Native “themed” mascots.

There is still work to be done.

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Posted • NCAI applauds the recent legislation in Colorado and Nevada to ban Native “themed” school mascots, logos, and names. According to our mascot tracking database, there are 28 schools in Colorado and three schools in Nevada with Native “themed” mascots. Nationally, there are still more than 1,900 schools employing Native “themed” mascots.

There is still work to be done.

View NCAI’s school mascot tracking database with the link in our bio. @ Millis High School

Posted • Over the weekend, it was reported the bodies of were recovered at a Residential School in what is now called Canada. In the midst of mourning this stark reminder of colonization and violence experienced by Indigenous people, we’ve realized many non-Native allies may not understand this complex history and why our community is in mourning. While this news directly implicates the Canadian government, the painful reality is that this was not an anomaly. The long history of forcible assimilation encompasses US Indian boarding schools and continues to affect Native peoples and communities today. This is not an event of the past. We collectively feel the trauma that was caused by Federal Boarding School policy carried out by the U.S. Government and the Christian Church.

There were 357 known forcible assimilation schools operated in the United States. The last boarding school in the US closed its doors in 1973. It wasn’t until 1978 with the passing of the Indian Child Welfare Act that Native American parents gained the legal right to deny their children’s placement in off-reservation schools.

The boarding schools opened a hundred years earlier with one goal: to assimilate and exterminate Native people through violent and abusive acts committed against Native children. The bodies recovered over the weekend were from one school in Canada. There were over 400 Residential and Boarding schools in the U.S. and Canada during this era.

We hope this post sets you on a journey to uncovering more of the history you weren’t taught in school. For additional resources, please visit .

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Vigil and rally at 4:30 PM on East Main St, Hopkinton, MA (Marathon Start Line)


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Posted • Rest in power Mikayla Miller.

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https://framinghamsource.com/index.php/2021/05/02/candlelight-vigil-thursday-for-mikayla-miller-16-thursday-in-hopkinton/

HOPKINTON – A candlelight vigil will be held in Hopkinton on Thursday, May 6 to remember Mikayla Miller, 16.

On Sunday, April 18 at 7:45 a.m. her body was found Hopkinton.

Hopkinton Police and the Middlesex District Attorney’s office has been quiet on her death except to say they are investigating it.

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Posted • announces the creation of the Missing & Murdered Unit (MMU) within the Bureau of Indian Affairs office this month just two weeks after being sworn in.

The new Missing and Murdered Unit is expected to "help put the full weight of the federal government" to investigate unsolved cold and active cases and coordinate resources among federal agencies and Indian country, according to the Department of Interior.

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Posted • This quote is pulled from a research paper conducted and written in part by Dr. Stephanie Fryberg, and advises decision makers to focus on the consistent findings of the research on Native mascots, namely that they have negative impacts. ⁠
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Image description: Quote from the published research 'The Psychological Effects of Native American Mascots, a Comprehensive Review of Empirical Research Findings.' "It is critical that educational decision-makers focus on the research findings that consistently demonstrate negative psychosocial effects of Native American mascots."⁠
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