<p>A newly elected school board in southern Pennsylvania is bringing back one school&#8217;s American Indian mascot.</p>
<p>The school board for the Southern York County School District, about an hour north of Baltimore, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/newly-elected-school-board-pennsylvania-reclaims-indigenous-mascot-rejects-cancel-culture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> 7-2 on Thursday to let Susquehannock High School bring back its traditional logo.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The new Southern York County school board defied cancel culture to restore a logo celebrating Native American Indian heritage <a href="https://t.co/iql6Gr7jmw">pic.twitter.com/iql6Gr7jmw</a></p>
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<p>The school&#8217;s “Warrior Head” logo, which depicts a Native American in a feather headdress with a tomahawk and a pipe, honors the Susquehannock Indian tribe.</p>
<p>The vote comes two months after the district elected five new school board members, who ran on pro-American Indian platforms.</p>
<p>All seven board members who voted to bring back the old logo were elected after another vote to eliminate the logo back in 2020, a move that sparked outrage in the community.</p>
<p>A new logo was created, a &#8220;W&#8221; with an arrow through it, showing &#8220;movement and a forward, upward direction symbolizing the district’s direction in academics, athletics and as a community,&#8221; <a href="https://www.sycsd.org/domain/460" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to graphic communications teacher Wade Bowers.</p>
<p>Critics argued that the push to retire the logo was erasing the area&#8217;s history.</p>
<p>In 2020, the school board&#8217;s diversity committee <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/newly-elected-school-board-pennsylvania-reclaims-indigenous-mascot-rejects-cancel-culture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> that the Susquehannock tribe supposedly never lived in the area of the district.</p>
<p>However, local historians disagree, saying the Susquehannock people were known to reside in the area.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Susquehannock lived in large fortified towns, the largest of which may have had a population of nearly 3,000 people,&#8221; the Susquehanna National Heritage Area <a href="https://susqnha.org/discover-river-history/susquehannock-native-landscape/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> on its website.</p>
<p>&#8220;Their communities were located along the Susquehanna, especially in Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, and York counties,&#8221; the website says.</p>
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<p>Nevertheless, the Southern York County school board at the time went ahead with the vote to remove the American Indian mascot despite a petition against it that garnered 3,800 signatures.</p>
<p>Jennifer and Nathan Henkel, the parents of three children, are two of the new school board members who voted to bring back the old logo.</p>
<p>&#8220;This movement was about erasing Native American culture and I wasn’t about to stand for it,&#8221; Jennifer Henkel <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/newly-elected-school-board-pennsylvania-reclaims-indigenous-mascot-rejects-cancel-culture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News.</p>
<p>“This school was built on Susquehanna land,” one community member said at Thursday&#8217;s meeting. “Those people lived here. You cannot rewrite history. You can’t cancel the past.”</p>
<p>One group that urged the school board to restore the logo was the Native American Guardians Association, which has also <a href="https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/pa-school-district-reinstates-controversial-native-american-logo-cant-cancel-the-past-pennsylvania-southern-york-county-glen-rock-mascot-susquehannock-crisis-in-the-classroom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed</a> for the NFL&#8217;s Washington Commanders to return to its former &#8220;Redskins&#8221; name.</p>
<p>&#8220;The SYCSD school board stands as a role model and blueprint for other communities fighting for their Native names and imagery,&#8221; the group <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/newly-elected-school-board-pennsylvania-reclaims-indigenous-mascot-rejects-cancel-culture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement hailing Thursday&#8217;s vote.</p>

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