“after the NCAA concluded the 80-year-old Fighting Sioux nickname was hostile and abusive. “
Well, I guess if you are a passel of politically correct weasely wussies, the “Fighting Sioux” WOULD seem “hostile” and “abusive”.
But were I a Sioux, or Lakota or Dakota or whatever you call that tribe, I would view an attribute like “fighting” as a positive one. After all, under such illustrious chiefs like Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and others, they made an illustrious defense of their homelands, families and way of life. (As contrasted with modern day Americans and western Europeans when confronted with the threat of an insane predatory ideology called “Islam”).
Why, once upon a time, you could have even referred to the “Fighting Americans.”