2005 “I think it’s OK for us to use them,” said Karissa Kirkaldie (Hays-Ledgepole High School). “But what if a Native American school dressed up as white people? That’s how I feel about it.”
Is 'Warrior' Offensive
by Scott Thompson
2005 Nov 13, Great Falls Tribune
"What I feel is that it's a neat thing," Book St Goddard, Browning High School (Browning Indians, at the Blackfeet reservation in Montana) activities director. "Maybe I should say it, but I don't know why people are offended by it."
“The more I learn (to speak) Assiniboine, the more I learn that. There are different dialects to it. That’s how far the diversity goes, and that’s just within Assiniboine… So when you lump us as one, it really doesn’t work.” Racine doesn’t buy the argument that it’s okay for Indian schools to use the mascots. “That’s just showing their own racism coming out,” he said. “If we’re going to say no racial mascots, then nobody should have them.”
“I think it’s OK for us to use them,” said Karissa Kirkaldie (Hays-Ledgepole High School). “But what if a Native American school dressed up as white people? That’s how I feel about it.”
“If we see white people pretending to be Indians, jumping up and down and doing this,” Browning student, Tailia Quintero says, while chanting and placing her hand on and off her mouth, “that’s offensive to some people.”
Tasha Parisian, a senior at Box Elder High on the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, would like all Native American mascots changed. “You don’t see mascots around here talking about other people’s culture,” she said. But she acknowledged that something positive can come out of Native American mascots. “If it’s helping us get our culture out, that’s good.”
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| 2005 Nov 13, Great Falls Tribune |
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