The Mohawk Trail regional school committee in western Massachusetts is the latest to take on the controversial issue of Native American imagery at its meeting on May 9.
Mohawk Trail uses the name Warriors for its sports teams, displays a Native American in feathered headdress on a public mural, and uses similar logos elsewhere.
The school committee is scheduled to vote on whether to keep using any or all of those images — and even whether to remove Mohawk Trail from its name.
Committee Chair Martha Thurber said she learned from the experience of nearby Turners Falls, which went through a long process — including a public vote — before ending the use of the high school's "Indians" mascot.
