UND and NCAA’s racist collaboration
The NCAA and the University of North Dakota have come to an agreement regarding the racist Fighting Sioux logo. Instead of banning UND for division I athletics until they remove the racist logo, the NCAA has decided to collaborate with UND. In an unbelievably awful move, the NCAA has given (gotta love it when non-Native American institutions give each other power over Native Americans…ugh!) UND three years to get the Sioux tribes to change their minds about the racist logo/mascot/symbol. WTF!
Tribes are leery about what’s to come over the next three years as the University of North Dakota tries to seek approval to keep the “Fighting Sioux” logo and imagery.
Ron His Horse Is Thunder, tribal chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, knew it was going to happen — and it did.
He says the ink had hardly dried on a settlement between the National Collegiate Athletics Association and the University of North Dakota (giving the school three years to get the OK from Sioux tribes to keep calling its sports teams the Fighting Sioux) before members of the tribe were being wooed by people siding with the university.
“They came down and took a crew of (Sioux) veterans to entertain them,” he says.
It’s a situation that Sioux leaders in North Dakota are preparing themselves for as UND tries to keep the school’s nickname and logo, and Sioux leaders try to safeguard their culture. It all stems from a 2005 NCAA decision to ban member schools from using American Indian nicknames and logos, deemed hostile and abusive, during championship competition.
via Diverse Issues in Higher Education
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I have seen at least one of these mascots/logos and I was seriously disgusted. Sure they may have come about in a time where ignorance was excused and blissful. But NOW, NOW there is no excuse. Of course they don’t care………
Seattle Slim
4 Dec 07 at 5:53 pm
Have you been to the UND campus? Have you visited with UND students? If not, you should. It’s far from being a racist culture. As a North Dakota resident and fan of the UND Fighting Sioux, I support the logo. UND does care and many tribe members are proud of the UND logo.
Did you know that UND has the highest % of Native American students in the nation? Did you know that UND has the highest % of Native American students in healthcare programs? The last time I checked those statistics, they were accurate. If the stats changed very recently, UND is still a top higher education institution for students who are Native American. UND is far from being a non Native American institution. North Dakota is extremely proud of it’s residents and students who are Native American….the use of the logo is a reflection of pride and honor.
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UND Fan
23 Apr 09 at 8:46 am
[...] The hypocrites that make up the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education voted last week to allow the University of North Dakota to have more time to purchase the approval of a Sioux tribe regarding UND’s racist mascot. The University of North Dakota’s controversial “Fighting Sioux” nickname got a 30-day reprieve today, as the state’s Board of Higher Education voted, 6 to 1, to extend until October 31 the deadline for the nickname’s demise unless a tribal council announces plans to hold a referendum on its use, according to the Grand Forks Herald. The university sued the NCAA in 2006, after the association declined to grant a waiver from a policy banning American Indian imagery in team nicknames and mascots, which the NCAA deemed offensive. In settling the suit, North Dakota agreed to drop the nickname unless it could win the approval of two Sioux tribes. One tribe has endorsed the nickname, but the other has refused to even schedule a vote. (via The Chronicle) [...]
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