Nickname Dropped

As of midnight Wednesday, a small eastern Oregon high school in the ancestral valley of the Nez Perce officially stopped using the name “Savages” and its Indian logo.

Gone will be the sign at the entrance to town that reads, “Welcome to Enterprise: Home of the Savages.” Gone, too, will be the cartoonish, bulbous-nosed Indian face - from signs and wall murals and wrestling mats and football jerseys and helmets.

“Dang it, it’s near the 21st century. It’s about time,” said Joe McCormack, the only Nez Perce in Wallowa County.