Group: Tribe OKs Sioux nickname on April ballot
By: Tu-Uyen Tran, Grand Forks Herald --- UND’s Fighting Sioux nickname will be on the ballot in the Spirit Lake Dakotah Nation primary elections in April, a member of the committee trying to save the nickname said Wednesday.
Eunice Davidson said the Tribal Council approved the signatures her group collected.
The group will be campaigning and reminding tribal members to vote, she said.
A legal settlement between UND and the NCAA requires the university to win approval from the Spirit Lake tribe and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to retain the nickname. UND would otherwise have to begin phasing out the nickname by Nov. 30, 2010. The NCAA said the nickname is “hostile and abusive.”
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Spirit Lake Tribe to vote on Fighting Sioux name.
While I applaud the effort. I just think it's a little too late and isn't going to make a difference. The only way it will make a difference is if the members of the Standing Rock Tribe are allowed to vote on UND using the Fighting Sioux nick name as well. That will not happen because Ron His Horse Thunder will not allow the Standing Rock tribe to vote on the Fighting Sioux nick name issue. I believe the name will be gone and that the University of North Dakota will cave to pressure from P.C. groups, this is a perfect example of what happens when Liberalism and political correctness runs a muck. The Basketball and Football teams needs a conference to play in and some look at the Fighting Sioux Nick Name as being an impediment to them getting into a conference. Oh yeah! The University is going to give up our storied Fighting Sioux nick name so we can play in a second rate conference (not even a mid major)like the Summit.
And after all of this, the most insulting name will still be in existance: the Washington Redskins. All the NCAA nicknames were extremely less insulting than Redskins.
ReplyDeleteBasically UND is being made to pay because one of the two tribes has a Catholic like structure (one person with tons of power making decisions for the masses).
If both of tribes allowed their entire tribal members to vote on the issue and both tribes decided that UND should not be allowed to be called the Sioux, then I would be completely okay with UND having to drop the Sioux name.
I'd also be just fine if Miles Brand would have examined the schools various nicknames/logos/uniforms/etc and decided those individual things were offensive, so those needed to go. UND having to stop using the "Fighting" would have been just fine.
It's like an Finnish football team calling themselves the Helsinki Minnesotans and then Pawlenty deciding by himself that them using it is offensive.