Fighting Sioux to fight on...For one more year at least.

[uaafanblog]

Re: Fighting Sioux to fight on...For one more year at least.

C'mon Donald answer the question. Surely your conquest to rid the United States of native american oppression doesn't end merely at words on a fan forum?! You must contribute to the relief of these great people's sufferings in some other way?

What part of me saying that native peoples of Alaska are self-sufficient was difficult for you? Did you go to SCSU or something? If you did then allow me to translate ... "They take care of themselves up here" ...

Your booze addled brain's inability to counter any facts or assertions I've made in this thread has left you with no choice but to attack the messenger. I understand that. It isn't the first time that some random pea-brain on the interwebs have found themselves unable to successfully engage me. I don't keep track but I'm betting it isn't even your first time running up against the wall of truth that is me. Regardless, I'm not the issue. Get it?

Now ... go back to the Pokemon Forums and troll someone else.

 

[owslachief]

Re: Fighting Sioux to fight on...For one more year at least.

maybe UND ought to stop playing in NCAA sanctioned tournaents and stop making money for the NCAA...Maybe John Galt can convince the successful program to go on strike until the collective-minded do gooders figure out which side their bread is buttered on.

I wonder what would happen if enough schools decided to form their own Association and stop paying into the NCAA

Who is John Galt?

 

[Jeo]

Re: Fighting Sioux to fight on...For one more year at least.

I see a difference between the wild beasts you named and a human society. Men have always adopted the names of animals in the hope that some of the creatures' desired qualities would be gained by adopting the name. Fine. Men have honored heroes, benefactors, and leaders by adopting their names. Fine.
I think we all understand the "Fighting Sioux" handle does not honor native Americans but does intend to borrow a stereotyped quality along with the name from a native American culture. Not so fine.

So Animals fine, people not fine.

So no MSU Spartans, UND Fighting Sioux, UND Fighting Irish, Denver Pioneers, USC Trojans, FSU Seminols, ect?

 

[owslachief]

Re: Fighting Sioux to fight on...For one more year at least.

I see a difference between the wild beasts you named and a human society. Men have always adopted the names of animals in the hope that some of the creatures' desired qualities would be gained by adopting the name. Fine. Men have honored heroes, benefactors, and leaders by adopting their names. Fine.
I think we all understand the "Fighting Sioux" handle does not honor native Americans but does intend to borrow a stereotyped quality along with the name from a native American culture. Not so fine.

Nah I don't think so. The moniker is fairly specific: Fighting Sioux, which implies that this is a well-defined subset of the Sioux Nation. Now we could go with something that's more insidious like "Your Average Sioux" where then people could then draw their own (more dangerous) conclusion as to the nature of the average Sioux individual as a skating, tackling, brawling brute, perhaps on a par with "Drunk Sioux" - but see that's also a defined region of the Venn Diagram and let's not go there.

On the other hand, we have Fighting Irish, and those who wish to bring down the entire Irish ethnicity by shortening it to "Irish", thereby implying "It's understood, all Irish spend their nights in the pub."

 

[Ralph Baer]

Re: Fighting Sioux to fight on...For one more year at least.

So Animals fine, people not fine.

So no MSU Spartans, UND Fighting Sioux, UND Fighting Irish, Denver Pioneers, USC Trojans, FSU Seminols, ect?

So RPI Engineers isn't good either? Can we go back to the RPI Bachelors?

 

[SoCalSiouxFan]

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Syracuse University has closer ties to the Onondaga Indian Nation than UND has to the Sioux....

Blah Blah Blah ... Fighting Sioux bad Syracuse good ... Blah Blah Blah.

Simple truth is that Native Americans prefer UND over Syracuse. Statatistics indicate that nearly 2.7% of UND students are Native American but only 0.6% of Syracuse University students are Native American.

Maybe if they called themselves Warriors again they would attract more Native American students.

 

[uaafanblog]

Re: Fighting Sioux to fight on...For one more year at least.

Blah Blah Blah ... Fighting Sioux bad Syracuse good ... Blah Blah Blah.

Simple truth is that Native Americans prefer UND over Syracuse. Statatistics indicate that nearly 2.7% of UND students are Native American but only 0.6% of Syracuse University students are Native American.

Maybe if they called themselves Warriors again they would attract more Native American students.

So by that logic what does the 8% Native American student population at UAA mean?

 

[achybreaky]

Re: Fighting Sioux to fight on...For one more year at least.

So by that logic what does the 8% Native American student population at UAA mean?

Nothing.

 

[SoCalSiouxFan]

Re: Fighting Sioux to fight on...For one more year at least.

So Animals fine, people not fine.

So no MSU Spartans, UND Fighting Sioux, UND Fighting Irish, Denver Pioneers, USC Trojans, FSU Seminols, ect?

Animals fine people not fine! That should go for mascots too.

If your team needs a mascot get a real gopher or badger, not a person dressed up as an animal. That is so disrespectfull to animals to have Goldy and Bucky pass themselves off as real animals.

Also consider the extreme risk of danger to the person dressed up as, lets say a Badger, for example.

Imagine how supprised an unsuspecting hockey player might be to see a 7 foot tall badger coming right at him! The poor defenseless guy would need to slash the beast with his hockey stick to defend himself from an apparent wild animal attack.

 

[Patman]

Re: Fighting Sioux to fight on...For one more year at least.

What part of me saying that native peoples of Alaska are self-sufficient was difficult for you?

So, it becomes ok once you have more confidence in your society So, is this a temporary thing then and later it won't be offensive?

 

[Osorojo]

Re: Fighting Sioux to fight on...For one more year at least.

Stereotype animals all you wish. Have fun. When you stereotype groups of people is when the trouble starts, and rightly so. Yup, there is a difference between animals and people.

 

[5mn_Major]

Re: Fighting Sioux to fight on...For one more year at least.

Yeah, but tell me the last time you watched an NAIA Championship game on say ESPN? The NCAA does have a monopoly on Bigtime Collage athletics.

Not at all my point. Whether the NCAA is a monopoly or not...is not the issue.

The point is that university almost universally feel the same way...that they abhor the demeaning of minorities. And in this case, a significant number of Sioux say they are demeaned. And elimination of the NCAA won't change a thing. The NCAA is just the mouthpiece for America's universities.

So no MSU Spartans, UND Fighting Sioux, UND Fighting Irish, Denver Pioneers, USC Trojans, FSU Seminols, ect?

How many of those are minorities that feel severely demeaned by the nickname that represents them?

 

[omahasioux1]

Re: Fighting Sioux to fight on...For one more year at least.

Not at all my point. Whether the NCAA is a monopoly or not...is not the issue.

The point is that university almost universally feel the same way...that they abhor the demeaning of minorities. And in this case, a significant number of Sioux say they are demeaned. And elimination of the NCAA won't change a thing. The NCAA is just the mouthpiece for America's universities.



How many of those are minorities that feel severely demeaned by the nickname that represents them?

Where are your stats?

 

[5mn_Major]

Re: Fighting Sioux to fight on...For one more year at least.

Where are your stats?

This discussion is as old as the board. Hopefully this helps clarify the matter:

'The matter I speak of is the use of the "Fighting Sioux" nickname and mascot at UND. As you know we have taken three specific actions in the recent years regarding this matter as a government representing well over 10,000 members. The purpose of this letter is to respectfully remind your office and any other entities. Directly or indirectly associated with UND of our position. It is of course very simple and very clear, "Eliminate and stop the use of the 'Fighting Sioux' nickname and caricature today."

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

VOTE: YES - 12 NO - 0 NOT VOTING - 1 MOTION CARRIED. 4 - EXCUSED RESOLUTION NO. 078-98

WHEREAS, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is an unincorporated Tribe of Indians, having accepted the Indian Reorganization Act of June 18, 1934, with the exception of Article 16; and the recognized governing body of the Tribe is known as the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council; and

WHEREAS the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe had issued Resolution No. 356-92 to demand that the University of North Dakota discontinue the use of the name and mascot of the "Fighting Sioux"; and

WHEREAS, the University Administration has stated in the past that such actions, like the racially insensitive ones of October 24, 1992, will not be tolerated on campus; and

WHEREAS the University is sending a Dual Message to the students of UND, by attempting to provide a quality education for its students, but subjects indigenous students, namely those of the Lakota/Dakota Peoples of North America, to continued racial actions, by not changing its "Sioux" and "Fighting Sioux" nicknames; and

NOW THEREFORE LET IT BE RESOLVED, the undersigned Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council hereby reaffirms the Resolution of December 3, 1992, specifically that the University of North Dakota should discontinue the use of the "Fighting Sioux" nickname.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the foregoing resolution shall be effective on this date and shall remain in full force effect thereafter. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Chairman and the Secretary of the Tribal Council are hereby authorized and instructed to sign this resolution for and on behalf of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

Standing Rock Tribe

I send you greetings from the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe and its 10,207 Members. The Lake Traverse Reservation has lands in both states of North and South Dakota

The first matter of concern I wish to apprise you of is our support for those efforts that have been ongoing to see the change and elimination of such a nickname. The reason, of course, is simple: Use of a race of people as a nickname or mascot is totally unacceptable and only leads to the dehumanization of their Being, Culture, history and Children.

Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe

Our position and I convey respectfully to you is that to stop the use of the "fighting Sioux" mascot and moniker at the University of North Dakota today. As we enter a new century there isn't any justifiable reason to continue to dehumanize a race of people, their history, their culture, and their children today. As a member of this race of people, and as President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe with an estimated population of 40,000, I ask your institution to stop the use of the "fighting Sioux" mascot and moniker.

Oglala Sioux Tribe

Finally, I state that only the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, its people (32,000) and government only speak for us on this matter. Please consider this message to your office and other entities so associated with UND as our position regarding the "fighting Sioux" nickname. We extend our support to those students and others who seek to stop the use of the "fighting Sioux" nickname.

Rosebud Tribe

From the land of the friendly people of the Seven Council Fires we send you greetings. This letter will reaffirm our position in a letter to Chairman Charles Murphy of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe; we hereby reiterate our opposition to the use of the "Fighting Sioux" nickname by the university of North Dakota. People and their culture should not be degraded to such use and we ask UND to "do the right thing" and change its "Fighting Sioux" nickname.

Yankton Sioux Tribe

Our position is simple in that we oppose the use of the nickname, and kindly request that UND stop immediately the use of the "Fighting Sioux" nickname and/or mascot. It is most offensive to know the use of this nickname, as I understand it results in racial remarks and acts, publicly, in particular at sports events made when UND teams compete.

Crow Creek Sioux Tribe

WHEREAS, the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation respectfully requests the University of North Dakota to do the moral and honorable thing, buy removing and discontinuing the use of the mascot name "the Fighting Sioux", now

THEREFORE LET IT BE RESOLVED, that the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe is respectfully requesting the University of North Dakota to do the moral and honorable thing by removing and discontinuing the use of the mascot name "the Fighting Sioux".

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Mandan Hidatsa & Arikara Nation supports the aforementioned request to end the University of North Dakota's use of the "Fighting Sioux" name and its accompanying "Indian-head" symbol; and

FINALLY, BE IT RESOLVES, that Mandan Hidatsa & Arikara nation does hereby support this resolution in response to end the national use of stereotypical images that demean, rather than honor American Indian Nations.

Three Affiliated Tribes

 

[massattack49]

Re: Fighting Sioux to fight on...For one more year at least.

Blood returns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Put up the banner now boys. Blood will do it all next year!!!!

 

[Old Pio]

Re: Fighting Sioux to fight on...For one more year at least.

Talk about deja vu. All of the arguments here have been made, multiple times, in the past. In addition to being wrong, the PC crowd is puffed up with the sin of pride on this one. They're proud they've cowed the University of Illinois and proud that they're evidently on the verge of cowing the University of North Dakota.

The question of "hostile" and "abusive" is entirely subjective, with no data whatsoever supporting the concept. To my knowledge, there have been only two scientific polls among Native Americans on this issue, and each revealed, at a minimum, overwhelming disinterest about this issue. Why, even "Redskins" was not opposed by anything approaching a majority of those polled.

The vast majority of people worked into a tizzy on this issue AREN'T Native Americans, but that doesn't stop them from purporting to speak for Native Americans. This is the same crowd that just KNEW those boys on the Duke lax team had done something horribly wrong and that they should be severely punished. Because for the PC crowd, their prejudices are GOOD things, revealed truths. Anyone disagreeing must be beaten into submission, crushed.

Florida State was big enough, powerful enough and rich enough to make the NC$$ back off and create some "exceptions" to their original ruling. Illinois was beaten into submission by Chicago based Democratic legislators in the General Assembly who threatened the university's funding if it didn't submit. Now we're left with North Dakota, and based on DU's experience with the NC$$, I know it's very uncomfortable being in their crosshairs. Of course, we're talking about major problems here, not the trivial stuff going on at SEC schools with their football programs. No sir, we're talking about hurt feelings by "Professional Indians," who can get a little press and maybe even some money by jerking the university around on an issue that doesn't affect them at all. And the ejaculatory musings of non-indian iconoclasts who enjoy destroying traditions, while justifying their base motives with rationalizatons that would make Ward Churchill proud.

Just know that most of us think it's a terrible miscarriage to force UND to abandon the Fighting Sioux name and logo.

 

[The Rube]

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No matter what happens, 50% of the NC$$ requirements were met: The Spirit Lake tribe approved the Sioux name. UND was set up to fail. I hate the *ers, but I want to see fairness. This is a snowjob, through and through. Just to give the finger to the NC$$, name UND the "Spirit Lakers" and keep the logo. And issue an official statement. AFAIK, it would be within the NC$$ regulations, make the point, and pi* the NCAA and PC maniacs off.

 

[uaafanblog]

Re: Fighting Sioux to fight on...For one more year at least.

So, it becomes ok once you have more confidence in your society So, is this a temporary thing then and later it won't be offensive?

Read the context of his query to me before you inaccurately restate anything I said. They do still pay attention to context on the east coast of the US?

 

[HarleyMC]

Re: Fighting Sioux to fight on...For one more year at least.

Talk about deja vu. All of the arguments here have been made, multiple times, in the past. In addition to being wrong, the PC crowd is puffed up with the sin of pride on this one. They're proud they've cowed the University of Illinois and proud that they're evidently on the verge of cowing the University of North Dakota.

Old Pio-us aren't you starting to sound rather presumptuous yourself? "Sin of pride"? The intimations throughout your post sound like the timeless echoes of transcendent oracles of such pompous pioneers as Puritan minister Increase Mather, who after the complete annihilation of men, women and children of a surrendering Pequot Tribe, asked his congregation to thank God 'that on this day we have sent six hundred heathen souls to hell' (Chalk, Jonassohn, 1990). -Chalk, Frank; Jonassohn, Kurt. (1990). The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies. New Haven and London. Yale University Press.

The question of "hostile" and "abusive" is entirely subjective, with no data whatsoever supporting the concept. To my knowledge, there have been only two scientific polls among Native Americans on this issue, and each revealed, at a minimum, overwhelming disinterest about this issue. Why, even "Redskins" was not opposed by anything approaching a majority of those polled.

Where is your substantive and valid evidence of the subjective nature of the definitive NCAA standard of "hostile and abusive"? Shame on you.

Noteworthy is the fact that the NCAA Executive Committee, under the esteemed leadership of then NCAA President Myles Brand, adopted the standard of "hostile and abusive" in 2005 in part from case law. Members indicated such language as being applied in civil cases in which decisions were reached on the basis of what "a reasonable person" would find to be hostile or abusive. The "hostile and abusive" standard also is stronger than simply "offensive," which courts have ruled is protected under the freedom of expression.

The ruling applied to as many as 19 NCAA institutions whose self-studies on the Native American mascot issue did not satisfy concerns that some people could consider the use of the mascot or imagery hostile or abusive. Individual institutions have always retained the right to appeal their inclusion on the list of schools whose mascots are considered hostile or abusive and the NCAA Executive Committee has served as the appellate body in each appeal case.

The action was hardly subjective and the standard was adopted after almost four years of substantive research and debate. The National Congress of American Indians has been opposed to mascots that portray Native Americans in a negative light since the 1960s. But the mascot/nickname/logo issue became ubiquitous when the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, an independent bipartisan agency of the federal executive branch, issued a statement in 2001 encouraging all non-Indian schools, colleges and universities to stop using Native American mascots, nicknames and imagery.

The vast majority of people worked into a tizzy on this issue AREN'T Native Americans, but that doesn't stop them from purporting to speak for Native Americans.

You mean like the recent ND legislature's ill fated legislation and willingness to engage in a media circus of covert bullying while leveraging political position and legal rhetoric against the NCAA? One wonders what type of spurious cognition, power mongering and vested intere$ts are active in North Dakota politics that would prompt them to assume such a pretentious posture at the expense of expunging the sentiments of true Native Americans like the Standing Rock tribe?

Who does this Standing Rock tribe think they are anyway? Meh...what the hell, it's only a tribe of 8000 people, and more than half of them live in abject poverty and are drowning in their own drunken vomit anyway. Maybe the next step should be offerings of trinkets and a string of beads? Or perhaps they should all be shot (honorably, of course), so we can all finally move on indulging in our next sport's entertainment fix.

If UND wants a chance to compete in post-season play after August, IMO it's expedient and pragmatic to continue to proceed with their task force plans to discontinue the nickname and logo as they have been for nearly a year. Suing the NCAA will only incur further divisiveness and polarize this issue beyond belief. UND needs to suck it up, cut their losses and move on. It's doubtful the NCAA will change their policy and the caveat is UND will pay a BIG price for making this a long standing and overdone fiasco. I reiterate, if UND discontinues use of the nickname, the collective efficacy of that act will reap multiple dividends to all parties involved.

This is the same crowd that just KNEW those boys on the Duke lax team had done something horribly wrong and that they should be severely punished. Because for the PC crowd, their prejudices are a GOOD thing, revealed truths. Anyone disagreeing must be beaten into submission, crushed.

And hopefully you'll soon be providing us with more than just myopic speculation and hot air regarding your analogue to identify any salient correlates with this particular issue, right?

Florida State was big enough, powerful enough and rich enough to make the NC$$ back off and create some "exceptions" to their original ruling.

In August 2005, the NCAA granted a waiver to the Florida State University which removed it from the NCAA’s list of colleges using imagery “hostile or abusive” towards Native Americans. According to Bernard Franklin, senior vice president of the NCAA,

"The staff review committee noted the unique relationship between the university and the Seminole Tribe of Florida as a significant factor. The decision of a namesake sovereign tribe, regarding when and how its name and imagery can be used, must be respected even when others may not agree" -NCAA allowing Florida State to use its Seminole mascot. (August 23, 2005). USA Today.

The same stipulations apply to UND as significant research and documentation was provided by the NCAA designating Spirit Lake and Standing Rock Sioux tribes as "namesake tribes" regarding the nickname and logo. UND executive staff, the SBoHE and the tribes themselves acknowledged its validity and all concurred. Initially UND execs were not shaken by the designation of Spirit Lake and Standing Rock as namesake tribes because they assumed these tribes would offer compliance and sanctioned use of the nickname. However, UND has not established a unique relationship with the Standing Rock tribe anywhere close to the extent that FSU has with the Seminole tribe. So your point is irrelevant in this case.

Of course, we're talking about major problems here, not the trivial stuff going on at SEC schools with their football programs. No sir, we're talking about hurt feelings by "Professional Indians," who can get a little press and maybe even some money by jerking the university around on an issue that doesn't affect them at all. And the ejaculatory musings of non-indian iconoclasts who enjoy destroying traditions, an end in itself.

Just know that most of us think it's a terrible miscarriage to force UND to abandon the Fighting Sioux name and logo.

"Hurt feelings by 'Professional Indians'"? Classy propensity for provincialism Old Pio-us and spoken like a true black powder frontiersman...bravo. Have a nice refractory phase.

 

[davyd83]

Re: Fighting Sioux to fight on...For one more year at least.

This must be the Ultra PC vocal minority they speak of...

This discussion is as old as the board. Hopefully this helps clarify the matter:

'The matter I speak of is the use of the "Fighting Sioux" nickname and mascot at UND. As you know we have taken three specific actions in the recent years regarding this matter as a government representing well over 10,000 members. The purpose of this letter is to respectfully remind your office and any other entities. Directly or indirectly associated with UND of our position. It is of course very simple and very clear, "Eliminate and stop the use of the 'Fighting Sioux' nickname and caricature today."

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

VOTE: YES - 12 NO - 0 NOT VOTING - 1 MOTION CARRIED. 4 - EXCUSED RESOLUTION NO. 078-98

WHEREAS, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is an unincorporated Tribe of Indians, having accepted the Indian Reorganization Act of June 18, 1934, with the exception of Article 16; and the recognized governing body of the Tribe is known as the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council; and

WHEREAS the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe had issued Resolution No. 356-92 to demand that the University of North Dakota discontinue the use of the name and mascot of the "Fighting Sioux"; and

WHEREAS, the University Administration has stated in the past that such actions, like the racially insensitive ones of October 24, 1992, will not be tolerated on campus; and

WHEREAS the University is sending a Dual Message to the students of UND, by attempting to provide a quality education for its students, but subjects indigenous students, namely those of the Lakota/Dakota Peoples of North America, to continued racial actions, by not changing its "Sioux" and "Fighting Sioux" nicknames; and

NOW THEREFORE LET IT BE RESOLVED, the undersigned Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council hereby reaffirms the Resolution of December 3, 1992, specifically that the University of North Dakota should discontinue the use of the "Fighting Sioux" nickname.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the foregoing resolution shall be effective on this date and shall remain in full force effect thereafter. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Chairman and the Secretary of the Tribal Council are hereby authorized and instructed to sign this resolution for and on behalf of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

Standing Rock Tribe

I send you greetings from the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe and its 10,207 Members. The Lake Traverse Reservation has lands in both states of North and South Dakota

The first matter of concern I wish to apprise you of is our support for those efforts that have been ongoing to see the change and elimination of such a nickname. The reason, of course, is simple: Use of a race of people as a nickname or mascot is totally unacceptable and only leads to the dehumanization of their Being, Culture, history and Children.

Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe

Our position and I convey respectfully to you is that to stop the use of the "fighting Sioux" mascot and moniker at the University of North Dakota today. As we enter a new century there isn't any justifiable reason to continue to dehumanize a race of people, their history, their culture, and their children today. As a member of this race of people, and as President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe with an estimated population of 40,000, I ask your institution to stop the use of the "fighting Sioux" mascot and moniker.

Oglala Sioux Tribe

Finally, I state that only the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, its people (32,000) and government only speak for us on this matter. Please consider this message to your office and other entities so associated with UND as our position regarding the "fighting Sioux" nickname. We extend our support to those students and others who seek to stop the use of the "fighting Sioux" nickname.

Rosebud Tribe

From the land of the friendly people of the Seven Council Fires we send you greetings. This letter will reaffirm our position in a letter to Chairman Charles Murphy of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe; we hereby reiterate our opposition to the use of the "Fighting Sioux" nickname by the university of North Dakota. People and their culture should not be degraded to such use and we ask UND to "do the right thing" and change its "Fighting Sioux" nickname.

Yankton Sioux Tribe

Our position is simple in that we oppose the use of the nickname, and kindly request that UND stop immediately the use of the "Fighting Sioux" nickname and/or mascot. It is most offensive to know the use of this nickname, as I understand it results in racial remarks and acts, publicly, in particular at sports events made when UND teams compete.

Crow Creek Sioux Tribe

WHEREAS, the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation respectfully requests the University of North Dakota to do the moral and honorable thing, buy removing and discontinuing the use of the mascot name "the Fighting Sioux", now

THEREFORE LET IT BE RESOLVED, that the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe is respectfully requesting the University of North Dakota to do the moral and honorable thing by removing and discontinuing the use of the mascot name "the Fighting Sioux".

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Mandan Hidatsa & Arikara Nation supports the aforementioned request to end the University of North Dakota's use of the "Fighting Sioux" name and its accompanying "Indian-head" symbol; and

FINALLY, BE IT RESOLVES, that Mandan Hidatsa & Arikara nation does hereby support this resolution in response to end the national use of stereotypical images that demean, rather than honor American Indian Nations.

Three Affiliated Tribes