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Fighting Sioux

article No surrender: Fighting Sioux nickname supporters vow to fight on to June vote (5/16/2012)
(North Dakota) -- People working to persuade North Dakota voters to allow retirement of UND’s Fighting Sioux nickname next month say they’re encouraged by...
article MORON ALERT: Disappointed by dismissal of NCAA lawsuit, Spirit Lake lawyer turns back to nickname referendum (5/2/2012)
(North Dakota) -- The attorney who argued the Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe’s case against the NCAA in federal court said he is “obviously disappointed by the...
article Nickname defenders assert tribal sovereignty (3/22/2012)
(North Dakota) -- In a response to the NCAA’s motion to dismiss the Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe’s federal lawsuit over the Fighting Sioux nickname, the tribe...
article Tribal member, former UND athlete decries NCAA nickname policy; says battle is 'wrong and hurtful' (3/22/2012)
(North Dakota) -- Colleen Chaske, a star basketball player at UND in the late 1980s, says in a federal court document that the fight over UND’s nickname “has...
article MORON ALERT: Duluth hockey fans make public apology, vow of good cheer (2/23/2012)
(Minnesota) -- Representatives of the University of Minnesota Duluth student cheering section for men’s hockey games say they’re working to improve their...
article Petition group joins N.D. Supreme Court case on Sioux nickname (2/22/2012)
(North Dakota) -- North Dakota's high court has added the sponsoring committee for the Fighting Sioux nickname ballot measures as a party to the nickname case...
article MORON ALERT: Duluth fans again warned over 'offensive' chants (2/21/2012)
(Minnesota) -- Student season-ticket holders for University of Minnesota Duluth men’s hockey games were warned last week to clean up their acts after complaints to...
article MORON ALERT: Fighting Sioux Ballot Measures Press Conference Statement (2/16/2012)
(North Dakota) -- The following is the text of the statement issued by the #SaveTheSioux Ballot Measures Committee and Spirit Lake Committee for Understanding and...
article Fringe group speaks out on Sioux nickname stance (2/15/2012)
(North Dakota) -- For the first time since the Sioux logo controversy erupted, we get a closer look into why the people of the Standing Rock Reservation are absent in...
article MORON ALERT: Nickname backers insist name, logo represent no harm to UND student athletes (2/15/2012)
(North Dakota) -- UND's Fighting Sioux name and logo represent cultural diversity and have "done nothing to harm UND and its students," John Chaske,...
article Pro-nickname group's biggest financial supporter is 1959 UND alum (2/15/2012)
(North Dakota) -- Growing up in Mandan, N.D., and later attending UND, Norman Hoffman was always a fan of the Fighting Sioux — the teams, the name, the logo. At 79...
article Carlson: Legislature will fight higher ed board at N.D. Supreme Court over nickname law (2/14/2012)
(North Dakota) -- Rep. Al Carlson, R-Fargo and author of the revived law requiring UND to keep its Fighting Sioux nickname, said Tuesday that the law is constitutional...
article Petition signers not giving up UND nickname fight (2/13/2012)
(North Dakota) -- More than two months after the University of North Dakota officially dropped its divisive nickname, the public address announcer at a women’s...
article Preliminary nickname petition count: More than enough (2/10/2012)
(North Dakota) -- Petitions submitted to state officials Tuesday night to force a referendum on UND’s Fighting Sioux nickname contain approximately 16,770...
article MORON ALERT: Fighting Sioux 1, NCAA 0 (2/9/2012)
(West Virginia) -- Congratulations people of North Dakota. You have forced the hand of the people who run the University of North Dakota to return the names of the...
article Fighting Sioux supporters say petition drive tough (2/8/2012)
(North Dakota) -- Supporters of the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname say the referendum campaign has been tough, and the struggle's not over.
article Former and future UND athletes weigh in on nickname reversal (2/8/2012)
(North Dakota) -- The news has many local UND alumni excited and hopeful about the possibility of restoring tradition at the Grand Forks university.
article On to the Supreme Court: State Board considers challenging nickname law’s constitutionality (2/8/2012)
(North Dakota) -- Members of the State Board of Higher Education will convene early next week to discuss whether to ask the North Dakota Supreme Court to rule on the...
article Organizers say they have enough signatures to restore University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname (2/8/2012)
(North Dakota) -- Is it the return of the Fighting Sioux? Supporters of the University of North Dakota's nickname turned in about 16,000 signatures Tuesday night to...
article School will continue using Fighting Sioux nickname (2/8/2012)
(North Dakota) -- The dispute between the NCAA and the University of North Dakota over its Fighting Sioux nickname and logo took a new turn Wednesday when the school...
article UND supporters push to keep nickname (2/8/2012)
(North Dakota) -- As a member of the Spirit Lake Sioux Indian tribe, Eunice Davidson has little patience with arguments that the University of North Dakota's...
article Univ. of ND will use Fighting Sioux nickname (2/8/2012)
(North Dakota) -- The University of North Dakota resumed using its contentious Fighting Sioux nickname Wednesday even though it triggered NCAA sanctions, leaving some...
article With referendum, fans of Sioux name fight to save mascot (2/8/2012)
(North Dakota) -- Fans of the Fighting Sioux have once again rescued the nickname and logo from extinction, at least for another four months.
article Fighting Sioux backers finish petition (2/7/2012)
(North Dakota) -- Is it the return of the Fighting Sioux? Supporters of the University of North Dakota's nickname turned in more than 17,000 signatures Tuesday night...
article Fighting Sioux nickname lives again in ND (2/7/2012)
(North Dakota) -- As a member of the Spirit Lake Sioux Indian tribe, Eunice Davidson has little patience with arguments that the University of North Dakota's...
article MORON ALERT: Nickname supporters file petitions with 17,000 signatures (VIDEO) (2/7/2012)
(North Dakota) -- After a last, celebratory campaign for signatures at a Bismarck Century-Bismarck High hockey game and from an RV parked outside the Capitol, Fighting...
article Fighting Sioux petitioners make final push (2/6/2012)
(North Dakota) -- Supporters of UND’s Fighting Sioux nickname said Monday they believe they have enough signatures to force a statewide referendum on whether the...
article Group makes final push for nickname signatures (2/6/2012)
(North Dakota) -- Supporters of a campaign to restore the University of North Dakota's retired Fighting Sioux nickname are making a final push to get enough petition...
article MORON ALERT: Fighting Sioux nickname referral within 1,000 names of goal (2/3/2012)
(North Dakota) -- The campaign to restore the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname is within 1,000 signatures of the 13,500 needed to force a...
article MORON ALERT: State’s campaign of lies takes aim at Sioux (1/25/2012)
(North Dakota) -- Do the actions of UND and others serve the interest of the Sioux people or North Dakotans or even the university?
article UND coach apologizes to NDSU for 'racist blowhards' remark (1/17/2012)
(North Dakota) -- Veteran University of North Dakota women’s basketball coach Gene Roebuck apologized Tuesday to North Dakota State University President Dean...
article UND coach Roebuck apologizes to NDSU president for 'racist blowhards' remark (1/17/2012)
(North Dakota) -- Reported remarks made by UND women’s basketball coach Gene Roebuck at a UND Booster lunch last week have resulted in an apology to North Dakota...
article Letter: Too much fiddling from tribe's Committee for Understanding and Respect (1/16/2012)
(North Dakota) -- Do the actions of the Spirit Lake Tribe’s Committee for Understanding and Respect serve the interests of the University of North Dakota? During...
article Judge's decision on nickname supporters’ access to Ralph could come Friday (1/10/2012)
(North Dakota) -- Fighting Sioux nickname supporters told a judge today that they have collected about half of the 13,500 signatures they need to force a statewide vote...
article MORON ALERT: Nickname petitioners ask court for access to Ralph Engelstad Arena (12/27/2011)
(North Dakota) -- Supporters of UND’s Fighting Sioux nickname today filed a request in Grand Forks District Court for a temporary injunction that would allow them...
article MORON ALERT: Nickname supporters say UND, Big Sky misled Legislature (12/27/2011)
(North Dakota) -- A conservative blog that has championed efforts to save UND’s Fighting Sioux nickname alleges in a blog posting today that UND officials and...
article Wrong fight for NCAA? Writer on Time.com says UND nickname ‘harmless,’ even ‘positive’ (12/19/2011)
(North Dakota) -- The long and continuing fight over the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname has caught the attention of Time.com, which reports...
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N.Y. Cigarettes

article Senator Who Sought Indian Tobacco-Tax Gets 7 Years on Corruption Charges (4/30/2012)
(New York) -- A former state senator who relentlessly attacked the Seneca Nation of Indians and other indigenous communities for selling tax-free cigarettes on Indian...
article MORON ALERT: Consider this: Another New York state senator goes down (12/26/2011)
(New York) -- After Carl Kruger resigned from the state Senate last Tuesday and pleaded guilty to four counts of bribery and conspiracy, his lawyer asked the judge who...
article MORON ALERT: Weepy Kruger resigns, admits taking $1 million in bribes (12/20/2011)
(New York) -- Blubbering former state Sen. Carl Kruger tearfully pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges at a Manhattan courthouse Tuesday, ending nine months of...
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Foxborough Casino

article Foxboro pol: Man with ax told me to OK casino, or else (4/18/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- A Foxboro selectman in fear for his life has relocated his family after a hatchet-wielding neighbor was arrested on charges of threatening to kill him...
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Chief Wahoo

article Rite of Spring: The Annual Protest Against the Cleveland Indians’ Shameful Mascot, Chief Wahoo (4/7/2012)
(Ohio) -- Outside Progressive Field in Cleveland, a small group gathered Thursday to protest the Indians’ nickname and mascot, Chief Wahoo, a protest that’s...
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Online Legislation

article BLOG: American Indians Against Legalization of Online Gambling (3/15/2012)
(USA) -- Native American tribes profit too well from their casinos to support online competition. Many fiercely oppose legalization of online casinos in the United...
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Keystone XL Pipeline

article Bill Clinton on Keystone XL pipeline: 'Embrace' it (3/1/2012)
(Maryland) -- Bill Clinton says it's time to build the Keystone XL pipeline. Speaking at an Energy Department conference in Maryland on Wednesday, the former...
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Residential Schools

article Lawyer who fleeced residential school survivors now in Israel (2/23/2012)
(Canada) -- On Tuesday, APTN National News reported on the story of Howard Lorne Tennenhouse. He’s the Winnipeg lawyer disbarred for life for fleecing dozens of...
article MORON ALERT: Native school survivors' lawyer disbarred (2/21/2012)
(Manitoba) -- A Winnipeg lawyer has been stripped of his licence to practise law because he overcharged 55 former residential school students of almost $1 million.
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Chumash Tribe

article MORON ALERT: Tribal sovereignty warrants big debate (2/22/2012)
(California) -- "The United States' unique political relationship with tribal governments is now being transformed into an intergovernmental co-partnership...
article MORON ALERT: Annexation is welfare for rich (1/18/2012)
(California) -- The U.S. government created tribal annexation to get poor tribes off the welfare rolls, not to get rich tribes off the tax rolls.
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Liberty Quarry

article MORON ALERT: If it is orange, vote it out (2/2/2012)
(California) -- If it is vocal. If it is loud. If it presents fiction as fact. If it is wearing orange and you agree with it, you are a genius. If you question its...
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ANWR

article Alaska rep urges federal takeover of Central Park (1/30/2012)
(Alaska) -- When Alaska state Rep. Kyle Johansen penned a resolution to urge the federal government to take over New York's Central Park, he may not have expected a...
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Other News

article A Derby Win, but a Troubled Record for a Trainer (5/11/2012)
(New York) -- Last summer, the trainer Doug O’Neill was formally sanctioned after one of his racehorses at Hollywood Park in California tested positive for illegal...
article MORON ALERT: Megyn Kelly Mimicks Native American Word, Tells Shepard Smith She's 'Been Drinking' (VIDEO) (5/3/2012)
(New York) -- Megyn Kelly's Fox News show had quite the ending on Thursday. Just before she tossed to the next Fox News program, Kelly said that many viewers were...
article Racist Joke by Topeka Mayor Disappoints Prairie Band Tribe (5/2/2012)
(Kansas) -- Even the millions of dollars the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation generates for its neighboring Topeka community, is not enough to earn the proper respect that...
article Is An ESPN Columnist Scamming People On The Internet? [UPDATE] (5/2/2012)
(USA) -- A few weeks ago, ESPN columnist Sarah Phillips concluded her weekly "Junk Mail" column with a question from an unnamed reader:
article The mystery of the sports writer who became the story (5/2/2012)
(USA) -- The world of sports news is generally pretty straight stuff: game scores, player trades and team owner transactions. A young woman who entered that world as a...
article COLUMN: Indian lore will play OK in Elizabeth Warren’s ‘tribe’ (4/30/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- There’s an old saying in the Indian Nation: When accused of being a fake Indian, go on the warpath. And so we have Granny Warren, the...
article MORON ALERT: Bridgeton Lenni-Lenape lecture questions evidence on local heritage, met with opposition (4/29/2012)
(New Jersey) -- Members of the community, including local Native Americans, got a first-hand view of an argument for factual data regarding the history of Naticoke Lenni...
article MORON ALERT: U.S. compensated many generations of American Indians (4/24/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- It's high time for the federal government to dissolve the 1830s-era Indian treaties and make Native Americans equal U.S. citizens. Despite being...
article Geronim-OAP! I'm the Wimbledon Apache (4/23/2012)
(UK) -- PENSIONER Dennis Grinsted claims to be a real Apache — living in Wimbledon. The 72-year-old, known among his adopted tribe as Wolf, says he is only the...
article The Wolf from Wimbledon....meet the third white man to be accepted as an honorary Apache (4/23/2012)
(UK) -- Wearing a long black wig and colourful face paint, 72-year-old Dennis Grinsted struggles to blend in around Wimbledon. But the pensioner has good reason for his...
article MORON ALERT: Johnny Depp reveals origins of Tonto makeup from 'The Lone Ranger' -- EXCLUSIVE (4/22/2012)
(USA) -- Johnny Depp is no stranger to unfamiliar faces — but what exactly is the origin of his black-and-white painted warrior in The Lone Ranger?
article Pensioner: 'I am an Indian in a white man's body' (4/22/2012)
(UK) -- The sight of a pensioner dressed as a native American may have drawn a few funny looks in Wimbledon High Street. But Dennis Grinsted is, in fact, the real thing.
article How a hard core Ku Klux Klanner reinvented himself as a wise Native American best selling author (4/21/2012)
(Washington) -- This is one of those almost unbelievable stories that, if it were the plot of a movie script, no one would buy it. The story seems too far out there. It...
article Liberal Uneducation: Amherst College Publication Taken to Task for Housing Cartoon Depicting Tipis (4/19/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- Below is a letter reprinted with permission from two students at the University of Massachusetts. The letter was addressed to the editor of the...
article Franklin sprays ancient Indian mound with weed killer (4/18/2012)
(North Carolina) -- The use of weed killer to temporarily denude an ancient Indian mound in Franklin has some critics accusing the town of cultural insensitivity.
article Mormon Action Figures Depict Indians, er, Lamanites (4/7/2012)
(Utah) -- The news that Larry Echo Hawk is leaving the Department of the Interior to take a position in the Mormon Church brings up a relationship we will no doubt be...
article Commission nominee withdraws after racism accusation revived (4/5/2012)
(Alaska) -- Gov. Sean Parnell's nominee to a position on the Alaska Public Offices Commission abruptly withdrew his name Thursday morning just as senators were...
article Learn to find American Indian artifacts (4/5/2012)
(Ohio) -- The Crawford Park District will present members of Johnny Appleseed Chapter 19 of the Archaeology Society of Ohio at 10 a.m. Saturday at Lowe-Volk Park, 2401...
article MT lawmaker calls for impeaching Governor Schweitzer over bison issue (4/2/2012)
(Montana) -- A Republican lawmaker is asking the Montana Legislature to impeach Governor Brian Schweitzer (D-MT) in response to the State's decision to relocate...
article MORON ALERT: Old foes McCain and Abramoff find truce on campaign finance work (4/1/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jack Abramoff appear to have a truce. In 2005, McCain earned a badge of ethical pride as the head of the Senate...

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