A Long Island school board will decide Tuesday whether to keep a contentious Native American nickname, which many local residents have said they don’t want to see go .

The Connetquot school district, which has been taken to court by New York State officials who want them to ditch their current name, Thunderbirds, must decide if they will accept a compromise with the state that would shorten the name to “T-Birds.”

“We’ve never had a complaint [about the name] before this all started,” board member and Thunderbirds supporter Jacquelyn DiLorenzo told The Post. “People are proud of it, you see it at any of our games and in the stands.” 3

State officials had been trying to completely erase the Thunderbird name, but changed to accept the compromise moniker only after the Trump adminis

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