We went through months of folks coming to the school board meetings to speak on the issue and it got totally out of control," Scott says. "Locals would say, 'I was born a Redskin, and I'll die a Redskin.' They argued that the name was never intended to be offensive and that it honored the area's relatively strong Native American presence. The local family that raised the issue was getting all sorts of national support, and speakers came in from as far away as Oklahoma to discuss the negative ramifications of Native American mascots. Local groups argued back that these speakers weren't from Gooding and shouldn't even be allowed to be at the board meetings.