1971: [Native American-themed mascots] "Drawings like this only serve to perpetuate the Hollywood myth of the Indian as a bloodthirsty, whisky-drinking savage," -Lonnie Hazelwood, Navajo

How!
'Willie Wampum" May be Dropped 

by Marquette U.

1971 Feb 17, Lansing State Journal - Marquette University's student government recommended 16 to 9 .. that the school discard 'Willie Wampum' as the symbolic school mascot. The Student Senate adopted a resolution, criticizing Willie as a "degrading and offensive symbol to the American Indians at Marquette."

1971 Feb 17, Lansing State Journal 

1971 Feb 16 The News Palladium 

No Longer Savage, Sodden
EMU Changes Symbol Image Of
Huron Indian Symbol 
1971 Nov 17 Traverse City Record Eagle
      Under pressure from a Navajo student Eastern Michigan University has changed the image of the Huron Indian - the school's symbol and nickname - from "bloodthirsty, whisky-drinking savage" to a noble and wise Huron chief.
      Eastern Michigan has used the nickname since 1929 when sportswriters pleaded with the school to adopt a nickname because Michigan State Normal College, as it was called them, didn't fit too easily into a headline....
      Until this week, the Huron Indian on the school's insignia showed a snarling Indian, sneaking forward with raised tomahawk. A laughing face of an Indian was perched atop the scoreboard at the school's stadium. Both are gone now, replaced by Indians in a more thoughtful mood.

      "The face on the scoreboard wasn't even a Huron," commented Lonnie Hazelwood, the 25-year old Navajo Indian who spearheaded the drive fro their replacement. "It was a caricature of a Mohawk."
      "Drawings like this only serve to perpetuate the Hollywood myth of the Indian as a bloodthirsty, whisky-drinking savage," he said. "Actually, the Hurons were a peace-loving tribe of farmers and fishermen who were pushed out of Canada by the Iroquois and then driven to Oklahoma by the French, British and finally the Americans."

1971 Nov 17 Traverse City Record Eagle 

Indians Go On 
Warpath At Hanover
1971 Dec 6 The Portsmouth Herald 
"Rather than actual commitment, Dartmouth has, for 200 years, nourished only a romantic notion of being an "Indian" school through the creation and retention of a Dartmouth Indian mascot and assorted caricatures of Indian Americans." - The Native Americans of Dartmouth.

      Leaders of the group noted that 25 undergraduate students presently are Indians - more Indians than have graduated from Dartmouth in the past 200 years although the school's founders advertised its purpose as the education of Indians...
      The Indian group protested the use of the word Indian and the Indian figurehead as a sports nickname, a center design on the basketball court, and the letterhead on stationary and objected to use of Indian-related titles in magazine. The Indian students also protested a mural depicting the school's founder, Eleazar Wheelock, surrounded by Indian maidens. ..

      [The group wants] to admit a "significant number of Indian women when it goes coed next year and to establish a center for native American people."

1971 Dec 6 The Portsmouth Herald