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UND's Fighting Sioux nickname headed for dustbin
pioneer dePressed ^ | 5-15-09 | DALE WETZEL

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at twincities.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hockey; ndu; pc; sioux
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To: 1rudeboy

I actually think most Indians want more references to them, and afterall, Indian sports names honor the proud,strong, fighthing spirit of the Indians.....


41 posted on 05/15/2009 10:37:01 AM PDT by cherry
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To: massgopguy

Fightin’ Irish is one. Tulane Green Wave?


42 posted on 05/15/2009 10:37:29 AM PDT by trublu
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
How ‘bout the “Fightin’ Casinos” ?

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LOL!

43 posted on 05/15/2009 10:38:14 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: redangus

There were these protests some years ago at San Diego State University, where the nickname is Aztecs. And we heard how Aztecs is demeaning to Mexicans and the memory of Montezuma and all that. They took a vote of students and alumni, and 92% voted that they should keep the name. So the effort to force the name change at San Diego State died out. And they are the San Diego State Aztecs to this day.


44 posted on 05/15/2009 10:41:08 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: WOBBLY BOB
There, fixed there Mascot.


45 posted on 05/15/2009 10:43:13 AM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: counterpunch

LMAO!


46 posted on 05/15/2009 10:43:44 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: SparkyBass

Whoops... there should be their and I know better...


47 posted on 05/15/2009 10:43:54 AM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: WOBBLY BOB

I’m tired of everyone assuming I’m a racist and had everything handed to me simply because I’m white.

I want the same rights as “first nations” or whatever they call themselves - starting with no longer being called “white”....


48 posted on 05/15/2009 10:52:24 AM PDT by Tzimisce (http://groups.myspace.com/nailthemessiah)
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To: Brookhaven

“Having Cherokee ancestors, imho names like the Fighting Sioux (or Chiefs, Braves, or Warriors) are not insulting. Nor are teams named after tribes (like the FSU Seminoles.) They are part of American history and culture, and these names highlight POSITIVE aspects of native-Americans from the past.”

I have a friend who is half Seminole and he told me that his family finds the term “Native American” very insulting. His family prefers “American Indian.”


49 posted on 05/15/2009 10:55:53 AM PDT by Slapshot68
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Don’t get me started on all the animal team names. When PETA weighs in , all of those will have to go also.

The Felidae League has issued a protest against the Bengals and Lions as embarrassments to cats everywhere.

50 posted on 05/15/2009 11:04:21 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (No free man bows to a foreign king.)
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To: All

How about Kumbaya Sioux?

I’m really angry that a university would allow itself to be cowed by this stupid PC stuff. How about having a game with no winners so that some fragile psyches wouldn’t be razzled.


51 posted on 05/15/2009 11:07:48 AM PDT by Exit148 (a)
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To: trublu

Harvard Crimson, Stanford Cardinal.

Call them the UND Fightin’ Custers if it’s so offensive.


52 posted on 05/15/2009 11:25:02 AM PDT by AmishDude
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To: WOBBLY BOB

the fighting insurance salesmen!


53 posted on 05/15/2009 11:26:52 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

What is intended as cultural sensitivity is really cultural ethnic cleansing. There is no disgrace of the Sioux people being known as proud and fierce defenders of their people.
But now, any remembrance of the native north American people is taboo. First we wiped out their future, now we’re wiping out their past.


54 posted on 05/15/2009 11:31:14 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment (Is this field required?)
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To: Snickering Hound

There’s a flying squirrel called the fairydiddle; I don’t think anyone has chosen that name for their team, nor snail-darters, ostriches, prairie dogs, sand cranes, and many others. None of them have associations or lawyers. At least not yet. Might be something for ACORN or a Vista volunteer to look into, though.


55 posted on 05/15/2009 11:56:43 AM PDT by mathurine
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To: WOBBLY BOB

UND Non-Aggressive Love Lumps of Clay. Go Non-Aggressive Love Lumps of Clay!


56 posted on 05/15/2009 12:03:51 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: Snickering Hound

what about our mighty hockey Gophers?

now those are intimidating. a small,blind,bucktoothed ground rodent.


57 posted on 05/15/2009 1:11:31 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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