The Sioux sue

The University of North Dakota is the last college in the nation with an American Indian nickname and logo and, like all of the others, is under pressure to change.

Guess who’s fighting the proposal to dump the name “Fighting Sioux.”

The Spirit Lake Sioux tribe. They won a temporary restraining order last week to stop the University of North Dakota from retiring the nickname and logo. A hearing for a preliminary injunction is set for Dec. 9 in Ramsey County District Court in Devils Lake, N.D.

I find this interesting since Arkansas State University was forced to give up its “Indians” identity a couple of years ago. They’re now the Red Wolves. Nothing wrong with Red Wolves, but the change was, IMHO, unnecessary and driven by a moronic sense of political correctness.

"I don't think most people realize the Fighting Sioux is actually a source of pride to a majority of those in the tribe,” said Patrick Morley, a Grand Forks, N.D. attorney representing the tribe. “You can see Fighting Sioux jerseys everywhere when you go on the reservation."

The University of North Dakota remains the last holdout among 19 schools identified as having "hostile and abusive" mascots by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 2005 and 2006. The other universities have either retired their Indian mascots or kept them after securing the approval of their namesake tribes.

But what about the Fighting Irish? Personally, I think every one of those schools should have told the NCAA to go fuck themselves.