Sioux Nickname Could Be Dropped In 3 Years Unless Tribes OK It

Star Tribune ^ | October 26, 2007

[VOA]

If the nickname is changed, UND would have to remove most of its Indian
imagery on its Grand Forks campus.

Well, if the Sioux themselves dislike the school's tribute to their
fighting spirit...
I'd be tempted to rename the team "The Aboriginal Losers" for a
season or two.

Just to stick a stick in the eye of the political-correctness weinies.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

Cleveland should change their mascot to

“The Cleveland Yankee Killers”

make everybody happy. LOL

[teacherwoes]

So they’ll change it to what? Disgrunteled Sioux? Conquered Sioux? Casino Sioux?

For a law school it could be: Sioux me, Sioux you.

[TexGuy]

well they’d beter rename Sioux Falls, and everything else named Sioux-whatever.

How about Sioux City Airport, SUX ... (?)

[70th Division]

Well here we go AGAIN with the P.C. NCAA (Not Consistant About Anything) The already lost one of these suits. And their Big 10 Network sucks too.

[Badeye]

My post;

‘So they’ll change it to what? Disgrunteled Sioux? Conquered Sioux? Casino Sioux?’

Your post;

‘For a law school it could be: Sioux me, Sioux you.’

Couple of times per week, I see something and think ‘Damn, I wish I had wrote that one’.

This is one of those times.

[John Jorsett]

How about The Fighting Sue? Their logo could be Johnny Cash, or a man chasing an ambulance.

[adgirl]

As a person of Irish extraction, I will not rest until Notre Dame shows me the same respect as they have to show the Sioux. Fighting Irish indeed, why we get along famously with everybody . . . and don’t give me any lip about it or I’ll come over there and kick your butt.

[Alberta's Child]

What you've said there pretty much applies to every aboriginal tribe in North America. Few (if any) of them ever named themselves, but named other distinct tribes based on easily-discernible characteristics.

The Nez Perce, for example, means "pierced nose." There would have been no need for this group to come up with a name like this to describe themselves based on a self-adopted characteristic of the tribe.

[Last Dakotan]

Not to be taken as a threat, but the Lakota reservations in ND are very poor places that count on handouts from the state government. (As elsewhere little of the gaming money makes it to the average tribe member) If this doesn’t fly it will be much harder for these funds to continue.

[Boiler Plate]

They could use the Sioux City Airport as a mascot.

The Flying SUX!

[Old Sarge]

Bring back “The Fighting Whities”!!!

[Fiji Hill]

Why not demand that the name of the university be changed? After all, isn’t Dakota another name for Sioux?

[mainerforglobalwarming]

I love that little Irish leprechaun in the wwe.

[fish hawk]

Sioux is not their real name anyway. It’s Lakota, Dakota, or Nakota. All three are used. If they don’t get satisfaction do you think they should sioux?

[Uri’el-2012]

Nice pictures of the Rockies !

[doodad]

Exactly. The Fighting Red Savages might be available.

[Red Badger]

In fact, I think it’s kinda a cool name for a vehicle.

It sure beats the hell out of "Edsel" for a car name! What in hell were they thinking?........

[fish hawk]

And what will they call Sioux City Iowa?

[Sgt_Schultze]

The NCAA should begin to threaten the city where they have headquarters, Indianapolis. There is no reasonable excuse why the city is still known by that name. In fact, just about two blocks from the NCAA Hall of Champions is Victory Field, the home of the Minor League baseball Indianapolis Indians.

Start cleaning up your own back yard NCAA.