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To: wallcrawlr
I was taught that name Sioux was a pejorative term used by other
tribes of the people who called themselves "The People" or Lakota.

15 posted on 10/26/2007 10:28:27 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)
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To: XeniaSt
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.

29 posted on 10/26/2007 10:43:30 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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To: XeniaSt
The guy who created the logo, Bennett Brien must not have known or cared.


The University of North Dakota "Fighting
Sioux" Logo; Designed by American
Indian Artist, Bennett Brien.

46 posted on 10/26/2007 11:01:14 AM PDT by skeptoid (U.E., A.A., MBS with Clusters)
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