February 18, 2013 in The Daily Republic
RAPID CITY (AP) Some of the biggest names in American political history visited the Black Hills over the long President’s Day weekend, even stopping at their likenesses at Mount Rushmore.
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October 23, 2012 in The Daily Republic
GRAND FORKS, N.D. The timing was coincidental, but Russell Means would have appreciated it: On the day he died, workers began removing the prominent “Home of the Fighting Sioux” signs from Ralph Engelstad Arena in Grand Forks.
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June 12, 2012 in The Daily Republic
FARGO, N.D. (AP) Voters cast ballots Tuesday to resolve a bitter dispute over the University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux nickname, even as supporters of the moniker promised to resume the battle this fall regardless of the outcome.
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June 9, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
UND athletic teams, formerly the Flickertails, gradually begin using the nickname Sioux, later Fighting Sioux. A series of Indian head logos includes a cartoonish Sammy Sioux. Continue Reading
May 29, 2012 in The Daily Republic
PIERRE I started to re-think my thinking recently about whether calling a sports team the Braves is a racial wrong.
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May 17, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
Eight Oregon high schools will have to retire their Native American mascots after the Board of Education voted Thursday to prohibit them, giving the state some of the nation’s toughest restrictions on Native American mascots, nicknames and logos. Continue Reading
March 14, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
The emotional issue before a state education board last week was the use of an American Indian name and logo for a school’s athletic teams. Some, including American Indians, fervently support the tradition. Others, including American Indians, just as passionately oppose it. No, not here. This was in Oregon, where Scapoose High School athletes are known as the Indians and their logo is a fiercely determined American Indian in full headdress. That image may be banned, along with more than a dozen others in Oregon, within a few weeks. Continue Reading
September 28, 2011 in Grand Forks Herald
Mudonna, the costumed mascot of the St. Paul Saints baseball team, plans to run the 26.2-mile race, and she’s aiming to shake her bacon. Continue Reading
May 24, 2011 in Grand Forks Herald
Cobb Makes ‘The 10 Strangest College Mascots’ listThe latest award for Concordia College mascot Kernel Cobb by Her Campus and the Huffington Post comes as no surprise; he’s been named to “The 10 Strangest College Mascots.”
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May 11, 2011 in Grand Forks Herald
The St. Paul Saints have revealed their pig mascot for the 2011 season: Justin Bieboar. Continue Reading
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