Image via WikipediaHere are a couple of stories of interest.
The Next Little Big Horn: Black Cloud Cloud Says NCAAs Actions Discriminatory Against Spirit Lake Sioux
Well ahead of the August 12 meeting, the Spirit Lake Chairman and Tribal Council wrote a letter to the NCAA asking if they could come to the meeting and represent their tribe’s position on the issue, but NCAA officials denied the sovereign nation’s request.Carlson Says The Battle Is Not Over Yet on Sioux Nickname.
Here they are going to talk about the fate of the Fighting Sioux, and the name and the proper use that UND has given it, and the tribe that supports it, they don’t even want to hear from, said Frank Black Cloud, a Spirit Lake Leader, on the Scott Hennen show yesterday. “How do you not want to hear from the people that it affects the most?
The name was given generations ago,” stated Black Cloud, “and the NCAA really has no bearing as to what the tribe does and how the tribe gives their namesake away. We gave it in honor.
FARGO, ND - Those people [ND Legislators] don’t throw protest votes around. They were listening to the citizens of North Dakota when they cast their votes, and every one of them was well aware of what would happen in terms of conference affiliations and all of those things,” House Majority Leader Al Carlson (R-Fargo) said today of the legislature’s spring decision on the Fighting Sioux nickname bill.
Carlson went on to say that there is also no certainty that the law will be repealed in November.
At no point in time was there a promise made that we will change the law tomorrow, in spite of what was said in the media. I can't guarantee that those 93 people will all switch their minds, Carlson said in an interview on the Scott Hennen show today.
I think the name should have stayed, said Carlson. In the end if it can't stay, then so be it. But that day is not here yet.
