Maine
A March 15, 2021 update from Mr. Ed Rice reports:
1. The LAST SCHOOL: Skowhegan Area High School voted to end the use of the nickname "Indians" in August of 2019; in October of 2020, the school board (15-5 vote!) adopted the new nickname and identity "River Hawks."
2. Three schools: Nokomis High School of Newport, Southern Aroostook HS and Wells HS all remain "Warriors" but all three have made the use completely "generic" taking down many highly visible and well-known "Indian head" signs etc. The sporting jerseys for all three are completely free of inappropriate imagery, including the script use for the nickname.
In this January 29, 2019 editorial Mr. Ed Rice provided a detailed summary and update on the status of "Indian"sports team tokens in Maine public schools that notes only one school, Skowhegan, has yet to retire its outdated sports team identity. Mr. Rice, who is an author and longtime advocate on this issue in Maine, also leads an effort to have a monument erected in honor of famed Penobscot athlete, Louis Francis Sockalexis, who is regarded as the first American Indian professional baseball player.
An April 19, 2014 email received from Mr. Rice stated that "we can definitely scratch Southern Aroostook High School...and Wells High School is in the process of moving to "generic Warriors" according to Superintendent Ellen Schneider, in responding to the columns in her southern Maine region. Maine is now at just two schools continuing the practice: Nokomis of Newport and Skowhegan."On May 10, 2013 Mr. Rice provided this update: The only schools in Maine left using American Indian sports team tokens include:
Nokomis High School of Newport, Maine -- Warriors (with Indian head)
Wells High School of Wells, Maine -- Warriors (with Indian head)
Skowhegan Area High School of Skowhegan -- Indians (with Indian images)
Southern Aroostook High School of Dyer Brook and Island Falls, Maine told me they were moving to a generic "Warriors" but still had Indian head images on their web site. I took their administration at their word that they were changing this sometime this school year.
Thank you to Mr. Ed Rice for patience and providing the following October 2010 update on the current institutionalized use of American Indian sports team tokens by public school in the State of Maine. Author, advocate, and educator, Mr. Rice's website is at Sockalexis.net
Mr. Rice wrote:
"I found there are really only 9 schools left in Maine doing this:
"3 elementary schools (Athens Apaches, Strong Indians and the Indian school, Beatrice Rafferty, in Perry*),
* Note: It is the general policy of AISTM.org to exclude American Indian specific schools from these related listings.
"0 (Zero!) junior high/middle schools, and just"6 high schools (Wells Warriors, Nokomis Warriors of Newport, Southern Aroostook Warriors, "Skowhegan Indians, and the two most egregious, Sanford Redskins and Wiscasset Redskins).
"I believe the Fort Kent Community High School should be dropped from the "list after speaking with principal Tim Doak…who has eliminated all use of "icons "(including an Indian head on the gym floor) and has the school "moving towards a '“generic”' Warrior that offers NO American Indian "representation."
Athens Elementary School
PO Box 167 Fox Hill Rd
Athens, ME
mascot - Apaches
Strong Elementary School
Main St RR 1 Box 5
Strong, ME
mascot - Indians
Sanford High School
2 R Main St
Sanford, ME
mascot - REDSKINSNokomis Warriors of Newport,
Skowhegan IndiansSkowhegan Area High School
Skowhegan, Maine
Indians (with Indian images)
Southern Aroostook Warriors
Wells High School
Wells, Maine
Warriors
Wiscasset High School
Gardiner Rd
Wiscasset, ME
mascot - REDSKINS
Information that follows is that which was presented on AISTM.org from circa 1998 to Dec. 2010.
Number of "Indian" sports team tokens - Approximately 27
Most frequently used "Indian" token - "Indians" (18)
Instance of "Redsk*ns" nickname usage - 1
Quick mascot facts on the State of Maine:
Braves - 4, Chiefs - 1, Indians - 18, Other - 1, Redskins - 1, Warrior - 3 Total - 28
A D Gray Junior High School
56 School St PO Box 329
Waldoboro, ME
mascot - Indians
Athens Elementary School
PO Box 167 Fox Hill Rd
Athens, ME
mascot - Indians
Beals Elementary School
Mills Pond Rd
Beals, ME
mascot - Braves
Blue Hill Consolidated ElementarySchool
High St PO Box 837
Blue Hill, ME
mascot - Indians
Columbia Falls Elementary School
Point St
Columbia Falls, ME
mascot - Braves
Daniel W Merritt Elementary School
State Rt 187
Addison, ME
mascot - Warrior
Etna Dixmont School
RR I Box 1800
Etna, ME
mascot - Indians
Fort Kent Community High School
55 Pleasant St
Fort Kent, ME
mascot - Warrior
Per the Oct. 2010 update above, this school has consciously retired the association of its Warrior nickname to any ethic group and now moving toward a generic icon.
Husson College
1 College Circle
Bangor, ME
Mardti Stevens Learning Center
PO Box 249
Skowhegan, ME
mascot - Indians
Mildred L Day Memorial School
600 Limerick Rd
Arundel, ME
mascot - Indians
Morison Memorial Elementary School
Main Rd PO Box 7
East Corinth, ME
mascot - Indians
Narragansett Primary School
284 Main St
Gorham, ME
mascot - Indians
Old Town High School
203 Stillwater Ave
Old Town, ME 04468
(207) 827-3910
mascot - Indians RETIRED
Pemetic Elementary School
Main St PO Box 255
Southwest Harbor, ME
mascot - Indians
Peru Elementary School
RFD Box 80 Main St
Peru, ME
mascot - Indians
Philip W Sugg Middle School
Lisbon Rd
Lisbon Falls, ME
mascot - Indians
Sabattus Elementary School
PO Box 280 Pond Rd
Sabattus, ME 04280
Principal Ms. Catherine Folan
207-375-696
mascot - Chiefs
Saint Albans Elementary School
129 Hartland Rd RR 1 Rt 152
Saint Albans, ME
mascot - Indians
Sanford High School
2 R Main St
Sanford, ME
mascot - Indians
Sanford Junior High School
8 Main St
Sanford, ME
mascot - Braves
Strong Elementary School
Main St RR 1 Box 5
Strong, ME
mascot - Indians
Trenton Elementary School
RR 1 Box 139
Ellsworth, ME
mascot - Warrior
Walton Ninth Grade School
92 Mary Carroll St
Auburn, ME
mascot - Indians
Wiscasset High School
Gardiner Rd
Wiscasset, ME
mascot - Indians
Wiscasset Primary School
PO Box J
Wiscasset, ME
mascot - Indians
Woodstock Elementary School
224 Rumford Ave RR 2 Box 731
Bryant Pond, ME
mascot - Indians