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Native American Students Push San Diego State to Retire Controversial Aztec Mascot

In 2001, San Diego State University dropped Monty Montezuma – a culturally insensitive cartoon figure that served as the school’s mascot since at least 1941. By 2004 – a year after a committee of students and professors voted on a new mascot – the Aztec Warrior made its official debut, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune. But in the years since the mascot’s reveal, controversy over the revised imagery has continued to bubble. In 2014, the Queer People of Color Collective – a now-defunct student group – unsuccessfully pushed for the school to renounce the mascot because it “[perpetuated] harmful stereotypes of Native Americans, including the notion that Native Americans are innately violent, dangerous, and ‘savage.’”

This year, the Native American Student Alliance submitted a resolution calling for the end of the Aztec mascot and urging the school to “choose and accept a new, non-human” one. On April 10, the Student Diversity Commission unanimously voted to pass the alliance’s resolution, and the A.S. University Council will take an official vote on April 19.

American Indian Studies professor Ozzie Monge co-wrote the resolution. On top of objecting the use of indigenous groups as mascot, which he says make students and faculty “accidental racists” in “redface,” he also noted that using the Aztec is historically inaccurate. The Aztecs have been tied to the Southwest, but they lived in central Mexico – about 1,000 miles away. “This is a public university,” Monge told The San Diego Union-Tribune. “We’re not supposed to perpetuate ignorance. We’re suppose to be seekers of truth and knowledge, and the fact is that we continue to foist this ridiculous idea on students, on the faculty and the public. It’s counter to our mission statement.”

In a letter he wrote to President Elliot Hirshman in 2016, he details how the school isn’t following the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s 2005 policy. That year, the NCAA banned colleges and universities participating in its 88 championship events from using mascots that were racially or ethnically “hostile or abusive” during competition. Monge argues that the school bypassed this policy by claiming that Mexico doesn’t belong to North America. “The Aztecs are not a Native American or American Indian culture,” former SDSU President Stephen Weber said. “However, the Aztecs are central to the cultural heritage of Mexico.”

Just as much as some have fought against it, others have fought for the Aztec Warrior to remain. Dr. Patricia Lozada-Santone, the assistant dean of student affairs says getting rid of the mascot would be upsetting to Aztec descendants. “They would be very crushed and devastated to know they’ve been wiped out of the multitude of thousands and thousands of generations of a place of higher learning, a place that would never speak again about the Aztec nation,” Lozada-Santone said.

When the school retired Monty Montezuma more than a decade ago, SDSU tried to replace it with a spearless Montezuma, which only further upset a part of the school population. Trying to get the mascot reinstated, SDSU alums launched The Aztec Warrior Foundation in 2002. It’s because of this opposition that the Aztec Warrior has remained.

This divide echoes the similar schism that has played out nationally. For decades, Native American groups have protested professional team’s use of indigenous figures. Fans of these teams, however, resist the change – even with the affected groups explaining why this imagery is so harmful. “Born in an era when racism and bigotry were accepted by the dominant culture, ‘Indian’ sports brands have grown to become multi-million dollar franchises,” the National Congress of American Indians wrote. “The intolerance and harm promoted by these ‘Indian’ sports mascots, logos, or symbols, have very real consequences for Native people. Specifically, rather than honoring Native peoples, these caricatures and stereotypes are harmful, perpetuate negative stereotypes of America’s first peoples, and contribute to a disregard for the personhood of Native peoples.”

Update, May 16 at 6:18 p.m.: In mid-April, SDSU’s Associated Students Council rejected the resolution, according to the San Diego Union Tribune.

SDSU Aztec mascot survives cultural appropriation complaints

The San Diego State University student government voted Wednesday to keep the school’s Aztec warrior mascot, rejecting claims that the mascot is a symbol of cultural appropriation.

Following a lengthy and acrimonious debate, the Associated Student Council voted 14-12-1 against a resolution that would have called on the school to drop the Aztec name and mascot, reports NBC 7 San Diego.

One member of the student council became so angry over the vote, which was debated for four hours, that she immediately resigned from her post, while another shouted, “Do your damn jobs.”

The resolution was proposed in response to outrage over the “cultural appropriation” of the mascot, and students demonstrated on campus against it earlier this week using the hashtag #NotYourMascotSDSU.

“For me, this Aztec is encouraging cultural appropriation. It’s saying it’s okay to use people as mascots,” moaned Raelynn Bichitty, a member of the Native American Student Alliance (NASA). “It’s okay to dehumanize them because they’re not on our level.”

Marissa Mendoza, the president of NASA, called the Aztec mascot a “racial sickness” and said she will not stop trying to change it until she graduates, declaring, “There’s going to be a clear path for people who do come in to take this by the reigns and tear this beast down. This is a racial sickness. A sickness.”

Over the course of a debate lasting more than four hours, the student representatives opposed to changing the mascot cited financial concerns, school pride, and paying tribute to Aztec warriors as important considerations.

“Fiscally this would be a nightmare, losing hundreds of millions of dollars and a loss of our brand as a whole,” said Josh Skolnick, who voted against the resolution, adding that the change would represent “huge disrespect to Aztec alumni.”

SDSU responded to the vote by explaining that it leaves such matters to student government and “appreciate the thoughtful consideration our student leaders have given the issue,” but took no institutional stance on the proposal, which could resurface in other governing bodies later this year.

“A similar resolution has also been proposed to the University Senate and is expected to go through its own policy discussion process in the fall,” SDSU said. “It is important to SDSU that all viewpoints regarding the university’s Aztec identity are given the opportunity to be respectfully heard and carefully considered.”

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Battle Over School’s Aztec Mascot Moves Beyond Campus

The controversy over whether San Diego State University mascot Monty Montezuma should be banned as racist has spread far off campus, with Web sites, petitions, news conferences and now even a vote scheduled today by the county Board of Supervisors.

Two supervisors announced Monday they will ask their three colleagues to join them in pleading with university President Stephen Weber that “it’s extremely important to us to continue the proud tradition of the Aztec mascot.”

All five supervisors are graduates of San Diego State, which has called its teams Aztecs since 1925 and has had a fully costumed Monty, representing the 16th century Aztec emperor, at its football and basketball games since 1941.

The student council, at the urging of the Native American Student Alliance, has recommended that Weber dump Monty and also study whether the university should retain the Aztec name and logo. The logo, a fierce-looking, red-faced warrior in full headdress, is used on innumerable best-selling campus souvenirs.

“There is absolutely nothing demeaning, nothing racist about Monty,” said Supervisor Dianne Jacob. “If anything, Monty helps instill pride, honor and culture. This is about maintaining the traditions of San Diego State University.”

Jacob was joined at a news conference by Supervisor Pam Slater. Both wore red and black, San Diego State colors.

“We want to stand up and say we’re Aztecs and proud of it,” Slater said.

The two supervisors were backed by a San Diego State graduate who played Monty on the field, an alumni association member, and leaders of a “Save Monty” committee.

Meanwhile, Weber is not commenting on the issue, pending a nonbinding vote by the full student body later this month. This follows a vote by the student council on a motion with nine “whereas” clauses and 11 “resolved” clauses that noted Weber’s commitment to “internationalism [and] diversity.”

Monty yes-or-no has become the hottest issue at San Diego State in years and one of the few to travel off campus. Weber has been deluged with hundreds of pro-Monty comments from alumni. His office established a special Web site, https://www.sdsu.edu/mascot, where they can be posted.

“People should not be mascots,” Chicana/Chicano studies major Melissa Castro wrote in the student newspaper, the Daily Aztec. “All this talk about honor makes me sick. Where is the honor when Monty Montezuma mocks our sacred ceremonies at football games?”

A pro-Monty Web site has been established, a petition drive quickly gathered several thousand signatures, and most of the city’s newspaper, television and radio commentators have weighed in, some repeatedly. Padres superstar Tony Gwynn, a San Diego State graduate, has lent his support to the save-Monty movement.

“There are a lot of people in San Diego who admire Monty Montezuma and don’t want to see anything happen to him,” said Carlos Gutierrez, who played Monty for eight years.

Tony Perry is the former San Diego bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times.

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