LAMAR, Colo. (KOAA) — A community in southeast Colorado is feeling the thunder, as a unique tradition is growing school pride.

As of June 1, 2022, Colorado schools couldn't use American Indian mascots unless there was an existing agreement with a federally recognized Indian Tribe to do so. Lamar High School's mascot was once the Savages, and the requirement to change their mascot made headlines across the state, but there wasn't much of a follow-up once they made the change to the Lamar Thunder. A couple of years after the change, a community member had an idea to enhance school pride around the new mascot, a bison.

"We were actually having a family dinner," Chad Hawkins said of the night the idea was born. "My sister in law was there, and my other sister in law, she was an assistant che

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