On Wednesday, the United States Patent and Trademark Office decided to cancel the Washington Redskins’ trademarks on the term “Redskins,” deeming it “disparaging of Native Americans.”
The Washington professional football team isn’t the only place in which this battle is taking place, however. Students at Neshaminy (Pa.) High School are locked in a similar fight over the name “Redskins.”
Last fall, the editorial board for the school’s student-run newspaper,