UND FIGHTING SIOUX

To heck with the NCAA and there idiotic sense of being politically correct!  The big issue with team names that are Native American is nonsense.  I am a UND FIGHTING SIOUX fan and I don’t care!  I’m proud of it.  The logo was drawn by a Sioux and the proceeds from the products go to support the Indian (Native American) Programs on the campus.  UND has one of the largest Native American Studies programs in the US.  Do these people not understand that this is partially why they do?  UND doesn’t do like the Florida State Seminoles do and have a student representing Osceola ride out on a horse and throw a spear in the field, in fact at every event a special message is given to show respect for the Sioux tribes.  If schools like UND lose the Sioux name the school would suffer greater than just the name, they would lose a beautiful facility built by Ralph Engelstad that he gave access to as long as the Sioux name was kept otherwise all rights of use are lost (he knew what was going on and didn’t want some whining white liberal panty waste to decide to change the name out of fear).  So, all I say is if this gets pushed further I would say bye-bye to all the specially funded Native American studies programs and then we should go after changing every name of every school that has some connotation of any people…i.e. Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Syracuse Orangemen, and the like.  That is my rant…whew…I feel better.