On Friday afternoon, the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs met with a handful of school districts with Native American mascots to have a dialogue — no decisions were made at the time.
After that meeting, it looks like Montrose County School District is going to need to get rid of the M-feather logo, which is all over Montrose High School and was adopted into the new proposed designs.
Ute Mountain Ute Chairman Manuel Heart, who is a voting member of the CCIA, told MCSD Superintendent Carrie Stephenson that Montrose High School's M-feather logo depicts an indigenous symbol with the feathers on the side because it looks like a Native American war bonnet.
At the last voting meeting in March, the CCIA rejected the new mascot for MHS on a narrow vote, which Heart said on Friday was because the commission hadn't seen the new logo.
So, it looks like the school district will need to change the M-feather logo, which could double costs.
I like A the best
After watching this whole Charlie Foxtrot unfold, I'd be all for a logo depicting a Red Hawk flipping a Johnny Cash-style middle talon...
But that's just me.
D and E looks off with the two long feathers. I would like them otherwise. I do like A and G though as well. I guess, I like the logo actually having a Red Hawk.
I agree the feathers look too much like a headdress. I prefer the logo with the wings and the word Montrose in large letters.
Take the stylized hawk from image A and use it to replace the funny looking bird in design G. That bird with the spread wings looks like an angry cardinal LOL!
I'm surprised B, D and E made it into their suggestions, given how much they coincide with the current logo. Not that I have much of a say, but I'm partial to G, as it doesn't really look like many logos I've seen.
Thanks for the update Anna Lynn!