From The Circle:
NDSU Student Senate opposes Indian mascots. January 2003
N.D. State debates Fighting Sioux name. December 2000
San Diego State replaces Aztec warrior logo. AP. August 2002
Allegations of racism at Bemidji McDonalds leads to protests. By Daune Stinson. July 2002
Indian mascot protesters vow to return next year. June 2002
Team picks white man mascot to make point. AP. April 2002
Political Matter: Native Issues in the Halls of Government. "Mascots debated on CNN." By Mordecai Spector. April 2002
Not The Fighting Sioux: The University of North Dakota's Mascot. By Winona LaDuke. March 2002
Native American Football League spoofs team mascots. January 2002
The Myth that is True: Native women arts exhibit defies sterotype. January 2002
Group says it will sue if offensive mascots are not changed. June 2001
Crazy Horse Malt Liquor brewer settles with family. May 2001
Marchers protest Fighting Sioux nickname. AP March 2001
Crazy Horse name used on strip clubs. By Jon Lurie. February 2001
Crazy Horse name protested - again February 2001
Despite a protest that was held on Dec. 12 in front of Liz Claiborne's Manhattan
headquarters in New York City by members of the Oglala Sioux, clothing manufacturer
Liz Claiborne has indicated that it will continue to market a clothing line
under the trademarked label Crazy Horse.
Crazy Horse Descendants Demonstrate in NYC January 2001
Dances With Stereotypes: by Naomi Simon December 2001
Fighting For A Good Name: by Foster Stangel December 2000
Crazy Horse, legendary chief, warrior and spiritual leader of the Sioux people,
did not drink alcohol and warned his people about the devastation it would
bring to Indian Nations. Over 100 years later, his name is on a 40-ounce bottle
of malt liquor, placed there without the permission of Crazy Horse's descendants
by an uncaring and callous beverage company.
Secret society exposed at University of Michigan March 2000:
Secret society exposed at University of Michigan by Brenda Norrell American
Indians and others occupying the offices on the seventh floor of the Tower
of the Student Union at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor found ceremonial
pipes, drums, headdresses, a cradleboard, and a racist 'Red Sambo' caricatureÑmemorabilia
of the Michigamua secret society, a society the university claims hasn't been
active for years.
Political Matters: Rod Sando reflects on racism May 2000:
Rod Sando reflects on racism "When I hear things like 'The Indians should
be required to fish from birch-bark canoes,' I am appalled by the racist attitude
this represents. Why should they, as a unique group of people, be denied the
benefits of modern technology? What else should be denied them? Penicillin?
Computers? Automobiles? Where does that thinking stop?"
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