East Idaho's Teton School District decided this week to retire its 90-year-old Redskins mascot.

The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes heavily pushed for the change to be made at the district's Teton High School in Driggs and during the months-long debate the tribes said that they are going to start a statewide effort to persuade all Idaho schools that have Native American-related mascot names to switch to something less offensive.

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