Yeah its racism and people who don’t recognize that are racists, so I guess the only thing to do is ignore the ones who are obviously against us and work with the good people who can help us, its really that easy. and if they decide to call some team the Fighting Ojibways, then I will go to the game and start a fight.

I am a Oglala Sioux and yes this is racist and very much so. They butcher 95% of us then want to use our image as their mascots how retarded and racist is that !

You made some clear points there. I did a search on the subject and found most individuals will agree with your website.

That picture says people are not Mascots. Hate to say it. UND-Fighting Sioux not a mascot. It’s a logo. People are still complaing about UND Fighting Sioux Mascot. Hate to break the news people, get your facts straight. They have a logo not a mascot. I never see anyone dressed like native americans on the sidelines at the sporting events. Do you research before you protest. By this picture you are exspecailly pointing out MASCOTS! There is no mascot at UND SPORTING EVENTS by what I have seen.

Just reading about this now from Australia.

This ‘quick, hide the Indians’ push seems like politically correct nonsense to me.

I’ve never seen this (the games) in person, so I don’t know if this is actually ‘offensive’ or not.

I bet it is not ‘offensive’, and sadly just the latest target of people encouraged to feel aggrieved about their lot in life.

What does seem real is that American Indians (or whatever their title du jour is right now) will have even *less* cultural visibility after this push.

They talk about cultural erasure, etc, and then go and do it to themselves!

As Americans mights say – go figure.

I happen to think those logos of American Indian warriors look cool. They look powerful.

Looking at other non-Indian cases, it seems that, deep down, only groups who don’t like themselves too much go for this sort of campaign – in contemporary times – of trying to erase almost all images of themselves.

Black Americans come to mind with their hyper-sensitivity over Black people in TV shows and commercials.

(Write about Aust Aborigines all you want – I don’t care. They are happy right now, munching away on their junk food that no one else forced them to purchase.)