The Trailblazers were named the new mascot for Killingly High School at the board of education meeting June 25.

According to the Michigan High School Athletic Association, Kingsford has had the Flivver as a mascot since the early 1930s, when there was a Ford plant in the area.

Many of the unique high school mascots in Michigan come from World War I and II references or are automobile-themed.

Massapequa has been entrenched in a legal battle against the state’s 2023 mandate to remove all Native American-connected logos in New York schools.

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But as the Chickasaw Nation member grew up and learned about his Indigenous roots, he came to see the school’s mascot — a stereotypical Native American man wearing a headdress — as problematic.

Students in recent years even painted a colorful mural with the logo and team name on a commercial building next to the high school in protest of change to the mascot.