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Clairemont High School, currently known as the Chieftains, is one of the six schools that will need to change their mascot.

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Clairemont High School’s ‘Chieftains’ mascot will be the first changed under the updates approved late Tuesday.

Principal Patrick Purdy shared the new school mascot and colors at the school board meeting April 28 and said choosing a new mascot and school colors is an important part of opening a new school.

But as the Chickasaw Nation member grew up and learned about his Indigenous roots, he came to see the school‘s mascot — a stereotypical Native American man wearing a headdress — as problematic.