Since its founding in 1958, North Cobb High School's mascot has been the highly insulting "Warriors", depicting generic Native American imagery such as arrowheads and headdresses, and referring to itself as the "Warrior Nation". Throughout the school's history, the warrior mascot has been given such names as "Big Heap Warrior" in the 1950's and "Chief Win 'Em All" in the 1990's/2000's. Representing the school, students, faculty, and staff as "warriors" and stereotypically utilizing Native American imagery without giving proper and genuine acknowledgment to the Indigenous peoples they mean to emulate is disrespectful, dehumanizing, and racist. This type of continued willful ignorance is unacceptable. 

As noted by an article published in the school newspaper from 2020, "According to The Cherokee Museum, Cherokee Natives did not even wear headdresses."

The National Congress of American Indians says this: "Indian mascots and stereotypes present a misleading image of Indian people and feed the historic myths that have been used to whitewash a history of oppression... there is no excuse for cultural stereotypes that degrade, slander, mock or belittle Native people."

Several attempts to change the school mascot have been made, all with fruitless results. It is time for the Cobb County school board to recognize the racism that lies behind North Cobb High School's mascot.

This ends now.