Posted on 05/15/2009 9:50:04 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
North Dakota's Board of Higher Education has agreed to drop the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname and Indian head logo, a move intended to resolve a decades-long campus dispute about whether the name demeans American Indians.
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good grief.
I was thinking the transgendered, transvestite lesbians.
As a diehard (die, being the operative prefix) Eagles fan, I hope one day that the Washington Redskins are forced to change their name. heh heh
Just stirring up the Friday pot.
What are they gonna call ‘em, the “Negotiating without Pre-conditions Lakota”?
Maybe it would be better if they changed the nickname to the Fighting Troopers and the school song to “Garry Owen”.
"Pacifistic Limp-wristed Surrendering Sioux-Wussies"
I mean, if "fighting" is so offensive, then the exact oppposite would be honorable, no?
If this keeps up the only thing we’re going to have to remember them by is alcoholism and gambling.
I hear they’re changing it to the UND Fork-Tongued Palefaces.
Yes, it’s clear that when you put the word ‘fighting’ in from of someone like ‘Fighting Irish,’ or the ‘Fighting Fifth’ or just about 1,000 other examples, mainly from warfare - man’s most traditionally popularly heroic endeavor - it’s intended to demean. Give me a break, but why fight it? Why not just change it to the ‘Fighting Anglo-Saxons,’ and just forget about the natives who would rather be ‘respected’ in obscurity than celebrated in popular culture.
LMAO!
Fightin’ Cthulhus. (Or, if copyright is an issue, the Fightin’ Old Ones.)
Do it, UND students. Do it.
“Why cheer for the lesser evil?”
/SDSU Jackrabbit here . . .
I guess I’m missing it. How is the term, “Fighting Sioux” offensive? Now, if they were named say, the “Sissy Sioux”, then I might understand it.
Ralph Engelsted will be back to haunt his arena.
as an American of Nordic decent, i say name them the “fighting vikings” in honor of my forefathers. if the redskins dont like the honor of a sports team, take it from them, the indians lost by the way. I call them sore lossers.
very disappointing. Has more to do with obsessed liberals than offended indians (as the Sioux Nations had actually endorsed the nickname...)
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