School board in Michigan votes to change name from ‘Chiefs’

Published May 30, 2021 12:00am ET



The Okemos school board in Michigan voted Monday to drop its teams’ name, no longer calling them the “Chiefs.”

The name was adopted to honor Chief Okemos, a regional leader of the Saginaw Chippewa tribe during the War of 1812, who serves as the city’s namesake, but school officials have been battling over the name since 1989.

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