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Tara Houska: 14-year-old Girl Testifying Against Native American Mascots Says Crowd Shouted 'Get Off the Stage Squaw' | HuffPost

17.9.17

14-year-old Girl Testifying Against Native American Mascots Says Crowd Shouted 'Get Off the Stage Squaw' | HuffPost: "Get off the stage, squaw!"

Bella Cornell, a 14-year old girl from the Choctaw Nation, said she heard these words as she finished her testimony against the name and mascot of the McLoud High School Redskins during a mid-December school board meeting.

In the packed audience, her mother was distraught watching her daughter. "It was horrible to see," said Sarah Adams-Cornell, "It takes so much for one of our kids speak up. I wanted to take her out of there and protect her. She's my child."

A few weeks prior, Woodrow Wilson, McLoud High's Indian Education Director, had reached out to Adams-Cornell hoping she would be willing to testify to the school's board about Native mascots. Several local Native American families had privately voiced their concerns to him, with one family stating they no longer participated in school events because of references to "dumb, subhuman Redskins."

A vote on the mascot had been scheduled in a meeting open to the public, but the concerned local Native families didn't want to testify, fearing backlash and bullying against their children. "The Board wouldn't allow anonymous comments, you had to actually be present at the meeting to speak out," said Adams-Cornell.


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