Watching the fans of the Kansas City “Chiefs,” tomahawk-chopping and wearing red-face and imitation feathered headdresses during last month’s Super Bowl, one might not have realized Indian team names and mascots have been on the decline.

Since the 1960s, about two thirds of schools—including universities from Stanford to the University of Massachusetts, and high schools in West Hartford and Manchester, Connecticut— have retired them. Maine now prohibits American Indian team names and mascots for all its schools, and Oregon prohibits them without consent and consultation with the tribes of the area. In the midst of this welcome development, the town of Killingly’s school board recently went backwards, reinstating the “Redmen” team name and mascot after the student body overwhelmingly voted to change it to the Red Hawks.