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Decades-long debate over Arcadia High School's use of Apache imagery resurfaces. The controversy began in 1997. In the late 1990s, Native American activists threatened to sue Arcadia High School over the use of the Apache mascot. "Apache Joe" mascot is no longer used. In 2020, a year of massive protests and change in the United States, perhaps another look at the logo and name may be in order. Arcadia schools Superintendent David Vannasdall responded, in part, with why Arcadia High School continues to use the Apache name, citing the strong partnership between Arcadia High School and the White Mountain Apache Tribe, who granted the use of their name to the school. He said, regardless of the school's mascot name, he will continue to honor the relationship he and Arcadia High School have with the White Mountain Apache Tribe and is fortunate to call them friends. He believes revisiting this issue on a regular basis is wise.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35764
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 25, 2020
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p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 25, 2020
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Activism
Arcadia High School Apaches
Burstyn, Mark
Farooq, Shayan
Mascots
Native Americans
Vannasdall, David
Wang, Sarah
White Mountain Apache Tribe
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The Marching bands in the 2021 Tournament of Roses Parade have been announced. Arcadia High School's Apache Marching Band and Color Guard will participate in the 2021 Rose Parade. See also Mountain Views News, p. 3, March 7, 2020.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35679
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 8, 2020
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 8, 2020
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia High School Apache Marching Band
Arcadia High School Color Guard
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade-2021
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Former Mayor, students reflect on continuing controversy over Apache imagery use at Arcadia High School.1342 people have signed petition to stop its use as a mascot.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35765
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 2, 2020
Pages
p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 2, 2020
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
Activism
Arcadia High School Apaches
Flanders, Jill
Mascots
Native Americans
Plourde, Martin
Vannasdall, David
White Mountain Apache Tribe
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia High School Marching Band and Color Guard become first high school team to perform at the new SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, during a NFL Los Angeles Chargers halftime show. History of the band's performances include the first Super Bowl ever hosted in Los Angeles, the 2005 Presidential Inauguration Parade, and the Rose Parade.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36129
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 9, 2021
Pages
p. 8
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 9, 2021
Pages
p. 8
Subjects
Arcadia High School marching band
Arcadia High School Color Guard
Los Angeles Chargers
SoFi Stadium
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Return engagements for marching bands. All but one band scheduled for the 2021 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, which was canceled, has agreed to perform in 2022. The Arcadia Apache Marching Band and Color Guard will march in January 2022.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35938
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 19, 2021
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 19, 2021
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia High School marching band
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade-2022
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The 70th annual Arcadia Festival of Bands set for Saturday, November 18. It has grown into one of the most popular marching band reviews in Southern California and is the longest-running event of its kind in the state. Photo of Arcadia High School Band and Color Guard. Kevin Sherrill is the Band and Percussion director at Arcadia High School. The parade's grand marshal is retired Arcadia Fire Department Captain Neil Conrad.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36590
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 16, 2023
Pages
p. 13
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 16, 2023
Pages
p. 13
Subjects
Arcadia Festival of Bands-2021-2030
Conrad, Neil
Marching Bands
Music
Sherrill, Kevin
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The Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade 2021 was canceled, but the show goes on for Rose Parade bands. PCC Band Director Kyle Luck and Arcadia High School Apache Marching Band Director Kevin Sherrill coordinated and edited a Zoom virtual performance starring Kermit the Frog and their student musicians for broadcast.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35886
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 1, 2021
Pages
p. A3, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 1, 2021
Pages
p. A3, A5
Subjects
Coronavirus-COVID-19
Marching Bands
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade
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Arcadia Unified School District to reconsider Apaches as mascot amid online petition drive, officials say it is on agenda. It is a revival of a 20-year-old controversy to remove Apaches name and imagery amid a nationwide movement to erase offensive emblems. Shayan Farooq, a 2013 graduate of Arcadia High School, felt the issue needed to be addressed. Farooq started a petition at Change.org. AUSD spokesperson Ryan Foran said the issue will be addressed in its list of priorities after reopening schools during the coronavirus pandemic and recent sexual assault allegations involving current and former students who were video recorded, without consent, having sex. Controversy surrounding the Apaches mascot dates back two decades when Native American activists protested the Apache Joe mascot at Arcadia school board meetings in 1999. Then Principal Martin Plourde sought the White Mountain Apache Tribe's blessing to use the imagery and tribal leaders approved, but many students at Alchesay High School (Arcadia High School's sister school on Apache reservation) found the mascot offensive and urged Plourde to change it. 2018 Arcadia High School graduate Yumei Lin is leading a Facebook group to change the emblem.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35782
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 14, 2020
Pages
p. A1, A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 14, 2020
Pages
p. A1, A7
Subjects
Arcadia High School mascot
Farooq, Shayan
Lin, Yumei
Plourde, Martin
White Mountain Apache Tribe
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Arcadia High School preparing to play big part in upcoming Rose Parade. Nearly 200 Arcadia High School students will be marching in the 5.5 mile parade route in the 133rd annual Rose Parade on January 1. Arcadia High School senior Swetha Somasundara, in photo, is one of the princesses on the 2022 Royal Court.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36141
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 30, 2021
Pages
p. 3
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 30, 2021
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
Arcadia High School marching band
Arcadia High School students
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade-2022
Somasundara, Swetha
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Arcadia's 35th annual Invitational Band Review included 40 high school groups.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3616
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 23, 1988
Pages
p. A-1 photos
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 23, 1988
Pages
p. A-1 photos
Subjects
West Arcadia Invitational Band Review
Item ID
3492AN
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The Arcadia High School Apache Marching Band will travel to Arcadia's sister city, Newcastle, Australia, in late June. Parents have agreed to make up the difference, if the $37,000 still needed cannot be raised. Besides Newcastle, where they will perform for 5,000 high school students, the band will sight-see and perform in Canberra and Sydney.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3085
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 3, 1982
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 3, 1982
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
3007AN
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Native American tribes seek expansion of national monument with more than 100,000 acres. Indigenous leaders say more parts of the San Gabriel Mountains are "sacred lands." They are calling on the Biden administration to go further in protecting the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 1, 2023
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 1, 2023
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Angeles National Forest
Antiquities Act
Biden, Joe (President of the United States of America)
Chantry Flat
Desert Cahuilla Indians
Fernandeno Tataviam Band of Mission Indians
Forests
Legislation
Pit River Nation
San Gabriel Mountains National Monument
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The Arcadia High School Apache Marching Band won the Sweepstakes Award at the annual state championship All-Western Band Review for the third consecutive year which earns them the perpetual trophy. This makes the third time they have won the perpetual trophy which goes to a school that has won the Sweepstakes Award three times in a row. This is a "first" in the All-Western Band Review.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3051
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 4, 1980
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 4, 1980
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
2973AN
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The drill team from Dana Junior High School marched off with the sweepstakes award at the 43rd annual Camellia Festival Parade in Temple City, while the band, tall flags and drum major (military) all captured first place trophies.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3114
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 25, 1987
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 25, 1987
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Dana Junior High School
Item ID
3033AN
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The Les Brown Band of Renown will perform at the annual Picnic Concert at the Arboretum. Brown is back by popular demand due to the overwhelming success of last year's concert.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper449
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 24, 1980
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 24, 1980
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arboretum
Item ID
449AN
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Series of articles describing the Arcadia High School band's stay in Australia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3087
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 8, 1982 p. A-1
July 11, 1982 p. A-1 (photo only)
July 15, 1982 p. A-1 photo
July 18, 1982 p. A-1
July 22, 1982 p. A-1 photos
July 25, 1982 p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 8, 1982 p. A-1
July 11, 1982 p. A-1 (photo only)
July 15, 1982 p. A-1 photo
July 18, 1982 p. A-1
July 22, 1982 p. A-1 photos
July 25, 1982 p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
3009AN
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Arcadia store specializes in goods made by Indians. When Thea Connolly opened her store on South First Avenue in Arcadia 20 years ago, she called it White Eyes Indian Shop, an Indian name of White Eyes bestowed on her by Chief Joe of the Hopi tribe.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 4, 1983
Pages
p. 1 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 4, 1983
Pages
p. 1 photo
Subjects
White Eyes Indian Shop
Item ID
847AN
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Members of the 1956-57 Arcadia High School Band remember the thrill of marching in the Inaugural Day Parade in Washington D.C. Raymond Bowman, pictured, was the band's director.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3094
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 18, 1989
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 18, 1989
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Bowman, Raymond
Item ID
3016AN
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Recount of the high school band's trip to Washington D.C. to march in the inaugural parade for President Eisenhower in 1957.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3053
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 19, 1981
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 19, 1981
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
2975AN
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Arcadia High School Choral Program concludes year with First Annual Choir Night Cafe benefit concert on May 20 at Arcadia Performing Arts Center. 2022 has been a year marked with change, with a new director and a return to in-person performances following distance learning due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Choral Program consists of Concert Choir and Chanteurs.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36249
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 26, 2022
Pages
p. 12
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 26, 2022
Pages
p. 12
Subjects
Arcadia High School Choral Program
Singers
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