Comments on: UND surrenders 'Fighting Sioux'

By: Hube

Hube — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:02:41 +0000

Peter: Please. The poll was a general poll about the term “Redskins,” which, if anything, is much more offensive than “Fighting Sioux.”

If “Fighting Sioux” is “offensive,” than as Crimson Wife noted, “Fighting Irish,” etc. should also be banned.

By: Barry Garelick

Barry Garelick — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:48:47 +0000

I guess this means the Fighting Illini are next to go. They already did away with Chief Illiniwek.

By: BadaBing

BadaBing — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:59:28 +0000

I would tell them to go to hell. If they don’t like it, they can Sioux me.

By: JND

JND — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:14:55 +0000

New name? How about the Sighting Fioux?

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:54:20 +0000

>>Seems real Native Americans don’t much care about this “controversy.”<<

Read the article.

This has nothing to do with the “Redskins”. It has to do with actual Sioux tribes in ND.

From the article:

“The name and logo, which is a profile of an American Indian man with feathers and streaks of paint on his face, could still be saved if North Dakota’s Standing Rock and Spirit Lake Sioux tribes agree by Oct. 1 to give UND permission to use them for at least 30 years.”

By: Hube

Hube — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:24:52 +0000

http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_05_10-2009_05_16.shtml#1242423155

Seems real Native Americans don’t much care about this “controversy.”

By: Crimson Wife

Crimson Wife — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:31:59 +0000

Oh, for Pete’s sake. I’m Irish and I don’t get my knickers in a twist about Notre Dame’s “fighting Irish” nickname and cartoonish leprechaun mascot.

Don’t the Sioux have bigger problems to worry about like jobs, a high rate of substance abuse, etc.?