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gregor197Jay Wrote:
"sadly, NoDak (7)and Wisc (6) have more hockey titles than MN (5). The thing I find most annoying though is the NCAA ruling that NoDak could no longer host tournement games as long as they remained the Sioux. They jumped thru the same hoops that Florida State did, yet got a different ruling. Tells what the NCAA is really all about."
This is not quite true. North Dakota did not jump through all the same hoops as Florida State. FSU, as well as Central Michigan (Chippewas) and Utah (Utes), received the endorsement of local tribes to continue using their nicknames. North Dakota received no such dispensation from local tribes in North Dakota. Two of the three tribal organizations in the state firmly oppose the nickname and one gave conflicting answers and never clarified its position for the NCAA.
See: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/other/2005-09-28-ncaa-und-rejection_x.htm
One reason that the local tribes in North Dakota oppose the UND nickname is that they are members of the Lakota tribe and consider "Sioux" to be derogatory. It was applied to the Lakota by outsiders and it reportedly means "little snake."
See, for example: http://www.lewisandclarkeast.org/speiden-01-03-05.html
-greg
(Editted to correct stupid mistake of conflating Eastern and Central Michigan - thanks for catching my error!)