Spirit Lake group plans N.D. initiative ballot effort to keep Fighting Sioux nickname
November 16, 2011 at 11:53 pm in Grand Forks Herald
Minot attorney Reed Soderstrom says the group will offer a North Dakota constitutional amendment that will say UND teams must be known as the Fighting Sioux. Initiative supporters need about 27,000 petition signatures to put the issue on the ballot in November 2012.
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This has long since stopped being about the logo. It’s become about money and politics. A constitutional amendment? Does the State Constitution mean that little?
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Put a team logo in the State Constitution? The law was repealed due to the damage that keeping the logo would do to UND, putting it in the Constitution brings back the damage. Just say “No”, if asked to sign, please.
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I feel like throwing up.
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WOW, I am blown away at how short-sighted some people are. It is time to move onto bigger and better things. What a waste of time and money, all while risking the health of UND in the long run.
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Does the petition/ballot amendment require UND resign from the NCAA? The NCAA has already made it perfectly clear they could care less about ND state law, and they are correct; it has no bearing on their operations.
I have said it before and I will say it again: if you want the logo quit the NCAA. Quit thinking they will bend to our wishes. They will not.
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fn you have to be nice.. It is hard for the mental minority to understand such complex ideas.
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This is Spirit Lake and all about Spirit Lake. They couldn’t care less about UND. They only care about promoting themselves and consequences to education, the state and, most importantly, the students be d**ned.
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t this allow for the North Dakota portion of the Standing Rock Reservation to vote on the issue? Is that the motive behind this? And if they would approve it, it wouldn’t really matter what the rest of the says does it? And wouldn’t that appease the NCAA because both north dakota reservations approved of the nickname?
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The time limit for SR to act passed a year ago. Continuing this effort is foolish.
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adam – yes you are wrong. You can’t extrapolate SR approval from a state wide vote because SR tribal members don’t all live on the rez or in ND, so those against the name wouldn’t get a voice, and that’s what supporters are always crying about.
As nickname supporters like to tell us, “move on and stop crying over the loss of the nickname”
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Isn’t it their name? Shouldn’t they be able to do with it as they please?
Just asking.
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The sovergn nation of Spirit Lake seems to think that they now run the state of North Dakota. This is too little too late and dosn’t include Standing Rock so it dosn’t mean a thing. Please spend the time working on the people of Spirit Lake and stop wasting your time on this issue.
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What more does the University, the SBHE, and even the State govt…have to do to drive it home into the realities of someones brain that the nickname is to be retired! ..i mean for crying out loud how much longer does it have to drag on over there. …i mean there seems to be some serious dysfunction going on with you people…
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