Posted on 10/26/2007 10:18:29 AM PDT by wallcrawlr
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — The state Board of Higher Education settled a lawsuit with the NCAA over the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux nickname, giving the school three years to get tribal approval to keep it.
The board voted unanimously Friday to approve the settlement after a closed-door briefing from Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem. If the school does not get approval from the Spirit Lake Sioux and Standing Rock Sioux tribes by Nov. 30, 2010, it will have to change to a new name and logo.
"The settlement confirms that the Sioux people and no one else should decide whether and how their name should be used,'' Bernard Franklin, an NCAA senior vice president, said in a statement.
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If the nickname is changed, UND would have to remove most of its Indian imagery on its Grand Forks campus. It could keep historical items and items embedded in the architecture, under the agreement.
Officials have estimated UND's Ralph Engelstad Arena has at least 3,000 Fighting Sioux logos, including a 10-foot sketch of an Indian head embedded in the granite floor.
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If it was a conservative organization suing, this school would be ignoring them.
Just change the name to “the fighting Sue”, there problem solved.
I suggest they rename themselves as the “Fighting Sue”.
And he said: “Son, this world is rough
And if a man’s gonna make it, he’s gotta be tough
And I knew I wouldn’t be there to help ya along.
So I give ya that name and I said goodbye
I knew you’d have to get tough or die
And it’s the name that helped to make you strong.”
How about.. “The fighting Troopers”!
The Sioux should be proud that their warrior heritage is still recognized. Instead, they are as PC as everyone else in this country.
9 seconds. Drat!
If they lose the right, will the Sioux tribe oppose the nickname “The Fighting Cavalry” and their mascot “General Custer”?
great minds!! LOL
So they’ll change it to what?
Disgrunteled Sioux?
Conquered Sioux?
Casino Sioux?
The whole world wonders.....
If the tribe doesn’t OK it, can the school Sioux to keep it anyway? *rimshot!*
well they’d beter rename Sioux Falls, and everything else named Sioux-whatever.
Got the impression that the NCAA, not the Sioux tribal councils initiated this action.
Seems fair that they should control the use of their own name.
I hope the Sioux tribes will allow the continued use of their name, and that the school treats it with respect.
I was taught that name Sioux was a pejorative term used by other
tribes of the people who called themselves "The People" or Lakota.
This article has me seeing red ping!
How about the “Fighting 7th Cavalry”, or the “Fighting Seventh”...?
Ok..I am Irish...will Notre Dame ask if they can use the “Fighting Irish”?
How much is the Sioux gonna charge will be the bottom line.
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