Wausau West teacher’s Native American costume prompts district review

Sep 23, 2021

A Wausau West teacher is under fire after donning Native American clothing in the classroom, a move critics are calling the Indigenous equivalent of “black face.”

The incident comes two years after the Wausau School Board led a statewide effort to retire Native American mascots and symbols. In 2019, the board unanimously passed a resolution that called the continued use of Native American mascots offensive and intolerable, an issue that “establishes an unwelcome, divisive and hostile learning environment for Native American students that affirms negative stereotypes that are promoted in mainstream society.”

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