Massachusetts Town Hanging Onto Indian Nickname – For Now

Three recent graduates of the public high school in the northeastern Massachusetts town of Tewksbury have started an online petition to ditch Redmen as the school's sports nickname – even though a local group of American Indians have supported keeping it.
The school's sports teams are known as the Tewksbury Redmen, a nickname that was once somewhat common in Massachusetts but now is becoming hard to find.