Posted on 09/26/2012 5:55:55 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
FARGO, N.D. -- Thousands of logos depicting an American Indian warrior will remain inside the University of North Dakota's hockey and basketball arenas under a reworked agreement announced Wednesday by the NCAA and the state's attorney general.
The agreement comes in a decades-old controversy that has included lawsuits, legislation, NCAA threats and a statewide vote about whether the school's Fighting Sioux nickname and Indian-head logo were insensitive to local tribes.
The state Board of Higher Education had ordered the school this summer to drop the nickname and moniker to abide by a 2007 agreement with the NCAA. But that plan called for all Sioux logos to be removed from the two arenas, which have thousands of the logos -- including on brass medallions on chairs and a 10-foot sketch in the hockey arena's granite floor.
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Eventually they may have to sacrifice somebody ~ they've done that before. I wouldn't mess with those people like this.
and that is exactly how the arena was designed.
yep...he’s looking down and laughing.
Don’t stop with athletic teams. Change town names, street names, rivers, mountains, anything indian. See how long it takes before the tribes start to whine about being a forgotten people.
They should never caved in because there is nothing hatefull about that name.
Except Elizabeth Warren, the great high cheek-boned native.
I’m wondering why Fargo ND is on the dateline since UND is 80 miles away in Grand Forks. Plus, screww the NCAA which is headquartered in INDIANapolis, INDIANa.
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