Cambridge (NY)

Facing a Ban, a School District Fights to Keep ‘Indian’ Nickname

Cory and Sarah McMillan of Cambridge, N.Y., recoiled when their 6-year-old daughter came home from her first-grade class one day and mentioned that she and her friend were playing “like animals” in a game they called “Savages.” “Like that,” she said, pointing to the Indian head mascot on her school newsletter. “We said, ‘This isn’t […]