The mascots are all historic — and often inaccurate — depictions, erasing the fact that Native people exist today, she said. And though to some the mascots can seem like positive representation on the surface, they’re adapted from a “bloodthirsty warrior” …The mascots are all historic — and often inaccurate — depictions, erasing the fact that Native people exist today, she said. And though to some the mascots can seem like positive representation on the surface, they’re adapted from a “bloodthirsty warrior” …