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Massachusetts Town Hanging Onto Indian Nickname – For Now

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.

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.…