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Alina Balasoiu, a junior at Lamar High School, walks back to school after play in a soccer game in the fields behind the school. A bill going through the Colorado Legislature that would require panel approval for mascot and team names. Several Native Amer

Is it sunset for the Savages of Colorado?

April 3, 2015Belief

“I was a Savage. My four kids were Savages,” says Ken Anderson. For more than a century, the high school mascot of Lamar, Colorado, bears the moniker of rougher days on the Great Plains. Will it have to change?

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