SOURCE: www.oleantimesherald.com

April 30, 2023

Students and administrators in one New York school district are wrestling with how to respond to the state's newly approved ban on the use of Native American-themed logos and names

SALAMANCA, N.Y. (AP) - The profile of a Native American man, a braid trailing down and feather jutting up, is tiled into a high school hallway, dyed into the weight room carpet and laid into the turf of the football field at Salamanca city schools.

School leaders say the omnipresent logo and "Warrior" name for the school athletic teams are sources of pride here, in the only U.S. city built on land leased from a Native American reservation.