School’s Native American statue, now banned, finds new home

WARRENTON, Ore. – A steel statue removed from a coastal Oregon town after the state banned Native American mascots has found a new home.

The Daily Astorian reported Wednesday that the statue, called “The Warrior,” has been moved from Warrenton High School to a Warrenton street corner. The statue is an abstract human form comprised of hundreds of small warrior cut outs.

Warrenton-Hammond Superintendent Mark Jeffery says the school board left the statue to him to dispose of after the district divested itself of most Native American imagery.

The statue was made in 1969 by students and is often featured in senior pranks and other school events. Jeffery says he found one of the students who helped make the statue to help find its new home.