Plimoth Plantation has announced a forthcoming name change to incorporate the Algonquin-speaking Indians who lived in the area when the Pilgrims arrived in 1620.
The museum, which was founded in Plymouth in 1947 to re-create and explain the Pilgrims' story, has introduced a new logo that ditches "Plantation" and incorporates "Patuxet," the name the local Indians gave to their seasonal settlement near Cape Cod Bay before they abandoned it a few years before the Pilgrims arrived.
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.
