The Slavic people are a race that descends from Indo-European roots that once shared a common language as well as area of descent.Today, the majority of these people â also called Slavs â live in Central and Eastern Europe.ctually the Slavs are the genetic group that Poles, Russians, Czechs, Ukranians, Croatians, Serbs, Slovaks belong to. Slavs are the ancestors of the native citizens of these lands in Central & Eastern Europe.
The name would be used again, this time to refer to Nebraska by Charles Cy Sherman in The Nebraska State Journal during the 1899 season and would replace all other names by 1900. The Cornhuskers have two official mascots, Herbie Husker and Lil' Red.
MaxPreps Mascot Mondays: Nebraska high school mascots. The Cornhusker State has no Cornhuskers. What it does have is a comic book character, people who find things, a Shakespeare quote and female Vikings. Just as important as a school's name and its location is its mascot. Options abound, and some teams go with the commonplace while others go with the truly unique. In Nebraska, there are 322 schools with mascots listed in the MaxPreps database.