Clark Intermediate School will not have to get rid of the Chieftains mascot after all.

Clovis Unified School District announced Friday that the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians gave the district authorization to keep using the mascot.

The backstory: Last year Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 3074 into law. • AB 3074, known as the California Racial Mascots Act, prohibits public schools from using the term Redskins and other names deemed to be derogatory Native American terms as mascots, starting in January. • AB 3074 specifically prohibits the following mascot names: Apaches, Big Reds, Braves, Chiefs, Chieftains, Chippewa, Comanches, Indians, Savages, Squaw and Tribe. • The bill allows for exceptions, however, as long as a local, federally recognized tribe gives its author

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