(N Dakota) House: UND may drop Fighting Sioux

[alp227]

Source: AP

Six years after the NCAA deemed it hostile to American Indians, the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname has hardly gone quietly through the courts or the state Legislature.

But the end of its life was in sight Wednesday, as the North Dakota House voted to give final approval to legislation that would allow the school to drop the nickname and its logo, which shows the profile of an American Indian warrior.

Gov. Jack Dalrymple has said he will sign the measure.

State law that took effect last March requires UND teams to be known as the Fighting Sioux, but the law has caused scheduling problems and could affect the school's bid to join the Big Sky Conference. Since August, the NCAA has banned UND from hosting postseason tournaments and has said the school's athletes may not wear uniforms with the nickname or logo during postseason play.

Read more: http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/7211233/bill-okd-let-north-dakota-drop-fighting-sioux-moniker

[jwirr]

1. For those who do not know the insult is double. Not only is the name

used as a mascot but the word Sioux is not the real name for the tribes - they are Dakota.

[CatholicEdHead]

2. Three different tribes

Dakota, Lakota, Nakota in the state all fit under the "Sioux" umbrella that the Chippewa tribes gave them as a insult (snake).

[jwirr]

4. thank you for correcting me. I actually did not know where the name

came from - should have.

[RC]

3. They are known as Dakota Sioux.

http://www.ndsu.edu/sdc/data/ndamericanindians.htm#map

Discussion

American Indians are North Dakota's largest minority at 6.7 percent of the state's population in 2009, and North Dakota has the 6th largest proportion of American Indians in the nation. There were an estimated 43,167 North Dakotans who considered themselves all or partly Native American in 2009. This number has increased from 25,917, or 4.0 percent, in 1990. In the United States, the proportion of the population who is Native American grew from 1.0 percent in 1990 to 1.6 percent in 2009 (U.S. Census Bureau).
Map of American Indian Reservations and Tribal Areas in North Dakota

Map of North Dakota Tribal Areas
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Reservations

Turtle Mountain (includes city of Belcourt; also known as Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa)
Fort Berthold (includes city of New Town; also known as Three Affiliated Tribes - Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara)
Spirit Lake (includes city of Fort Totten; also known as Spirit Lake Dakotah Sioux Nation)
Standing Rock (includes city of Fort Yates; also known as Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, members of the Dakota and Lakota nations; the other half of this reservation is in South Dakota)
Lake Traverse (also known as Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux; most of this reservation is in South Dakota)

[uppityperson]

6. "sioux" was given as a pejorative name, meaning "snake". Lakotah, Dakotah, Nakotah

are the names they had for themselves. Rather like "eskimo" rather than Yupik, Inuit, Inupiat. Some may use it, but it was pejorative, an insult.

[izquierdista]

7. Ask people who they are, you get the right answer

Ask their neighbors and you get "cannibals", "savages", "greasers", "heathens", "snakes", "lazyfuckers", "mud people", "barbarians", and some others that are even less complimentary.

[uppityperson]

8. "friend" vs "snake" indeed.

[alp227]

5. Headline is now "Governor signs Fighting Sioux name bill"