 The school used to be called the Oberlin Indians with the logo depicted by a native American with a feathered headdress.Sundance came across the highschool's use of an offensive Native American mascot emblem used as the school's mascot.He decided to petition the local school board in order to convince the school to adapt another mascot, in spite of opposition which argued in favor of the mascot's "insignificance" Several discussions took place before the final decision was rendered, and in 2007 the school officially decided to change its mascot and team name from the Oberlin Indians to the Oberlin Phoenix.