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The college mascot is the thunderbird and ”feel the thunder” is the school slogan.

Officially, these prehistoric birds are the dromornithids, but everyone who studies them calls them thunderbirds--and for good reason.

Some Indigenous tribes believed the birds brought thunder when they flapped their enormous wings, earning them the nickname “thunderbird.”

Headed by the histrionic General Hugh Johnson, the National Recovery Administration issued window placards embossed with a blue thunderbird to signify their compliance with its standards.

The practice runs through their language and culture, and the tribe’s symbol, a thunderbird holding a whale in its talons, speaks to its centrality for tribal identity.