If Indians don’t like it they can always go back to Asia.
As I understand it, the Sioux license their name and collect revenue.
The whiney little bitches who complain about this are not Indians at all. Indians does whine about things honoring them.
Please make a note of this: it is not Indians that are “offended” by these nicknames. It is PC liberals. They are using the NCAA to enforce their brand of political correctness on normal people.
Colorado needs similar legislation to protect their own “Fighting Whites” team name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Whites
Team booster shirts are still available! http://www.cafepress.com/fightinwhite
I don't think it was the Indians, per se.
Although the proper name for those tribes is the Lakota people. Sioux was what their enemies called them. It was not a term of endearment. OTOH, it was a term with a certain amount of respect, since in general those enemies got their asses kicked. :)