The Native Americans at Dartmouth are angry about the fact that the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux are coming to play in the annual New Years hockey tournament. The athletic director wrote a letter of apology to the student nespaper about this. Normally, something like this would end there, but imagine my surprise when my favorite sports blog, Deadspin has a post about the controversy. Of course, they didn't take the complaints very seriously.
One interesting bit of trivia about UND Hockey is that a wealthy alum gave several million dollars for the contruction of a new arena - however, he stipulated that the Fighting Sioux symbol be placed all over the arena, so that if the university decided to change there mascot, it would cost thousands of dollars to remove them all. I think there are literally thousands of the symbols. Crazy, huh?
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Dan, I can't believe how crazy they are getting up at Dartmouth. Even the president apoligized to the college community. If you ask me they are way over reacting, didn't they steal the land from the Indians in the first place?
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