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It Has Come To This

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The Sioux Nation is Siouxing the NCAA over its political correctness:

“Though the NCAA has decided ‘Fighting Sioux’ is derogatory, the NCAA supports the University of Illinois’ use of the name ‘Fighting Illini,’ and the use by Florida State University of the name ‘Seminoles’ along with the Seminole mascot – someone dressed in Native American attire who rides into the FSU stadium on a horse and throws a flaming spear before every home football game,” said Soderstrom. “The NCAA claims these are not derogatory depictions because the Illini people and the Seminole people approve of the use of the name and mascot. Inexplicably, the NCAA fails to accept the tribal vote and the sacred religious ceremony as endorsements of the name ‘Fighting Sioux’ by the North Dakota Sioux Nation.”

The lawsuit claims that the Sioux tribe were “indispensable parties” to a lawsuit filed by the State of North Dakota against the NCAA in 2007, the settlement of which required the state to get permission from the Spirit Lake and Standing Rock Sioux tribes, but were never included in negotiations of that settlement. It also alleges defamation, violations of the Indian Civil Rights Act, defamation and an unlawful restraint on trade.

You know, in the old days, they would have just taken some scalps.

17 thoughts on “It Has Come To This”

  1. IIRC, a high percentage (perhaps over 50%) of the students at that college are in fact Sioux. That makes the NCAA action all the more stupid. Maybe they should call their team “The Fighting Us”.

    1. When I was in school there were numerous intramural teams that would use the ethnicity of their team as inspiration for their team name. Never saw the Fighting Whites though.

  3. OK, I am now totally, totally confused about North Dakota, the name of a sports team at a public university, the role of an amalgamation of tribal groups identified as Sioux, and the NCAA.

    I kinda, sorta get the idea that Sioux tribes have an understanding with North Dakota that the sports team can be called Fighting Sioux provided they have some endorsement or OK from actual Sioux people, which the Sioux have given and in fact the Sioux want the sports team to have that name now that they have been asked if this is OK as many of their tribal people go to school there and take some measure of ethnic pride and school spirit from the name. Right? And the only holdup is the NCAA? And Sioux people are taking the NCAA to a court of law to get satisfaction on this?

    So Rand, why the reference to a manner of terrorist act that Sioux or other native groups are alleged to have committed over 140 years ago in their war to defend their lands “back in the day.” Aren’t the Sioux the “good guys” in this inasmuch as they take pride in their heritage and want the sports team called Fighting Sioux as a commemoration of that heritage? Shouldn’t they be in court to get their propers? So why the reference to them reverting to the old ways and waging irregular war?

    2. Hey at least he didn’t reference cannibalism practiced by many tribes in the east. BTW, that’s a desiccated sense of humor Paul.

    3. “What are these humor and jokes things of which you speak? I thought the right wing was supposed to be better than this!”

    1. Not the Lakota-daisical Sioux???

      BTW, Notre Dame has Fighting Whities, a/k/a Fighting Irish. Much more of a negative stereotype than anything warrior-related. Maybe they’d need to change it to Drunken Fighting Irish to make a point.

  6. You know, in the old days, they would have just taken some scalps.

    That didn’t work out so good for them, in the old days.

    Happily, them guys discovered that lawyers are way more effective than guns. And they were off to the races.

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