In a 2019 Indian Country Today article on the origin of Kansas City’s nickname, the Mohawk journalist Vincent ... the adoption of a mascot named Warpaint - a horse ridden by a cheerleader ...

“Usually when you see a school that has a native mascot, they’re cartoonish,” Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Chief Ron LaFrance said in a previous interview. “And that’s it. We’re not cartoon ...