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Offline Sal Atticum

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Bison offensive?
« on: September 11, 2008, 09:30:19 AM »
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From Lame Deer, Mont., on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, comes another complaint about a sports nickname and logo perceived by some as insensitive.

No, this one isn’t about UND.

Despite “all the stories, all the talk and all the controversy over UND’s ‘Fighting Sioux’ moniker, as an Indian … I find much more offense in NDSU’s ‘Bison’ mascot,” Joe Abbot wrote in a letter published in the Forum of Fargo-Moorhead.

“The buffalo was sacred to my people,” he wrote. “It was our food, our shelter, our religion and it was life itself. How dare a white man’s university take our deity and make it a sports team mascot?
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Re: Bison offensive?
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2008, 12:22:03 PM »
People are just getting ridiculous.  Whats next no mascots?

Plus NDSU is not the buffalo.
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Re: Bison offensive?
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2008, 01:03:17 PM »
"Buffalo" or "bison," they are talking about the same thing.  Where "bison" is the technical term for the beast (all true buffalo being restricted to Africa and Asia, I believe), "buffalo" is too ingrained in North American culture for many people to even know there is a difference.

I'm not sure whether to take it seriously or not.  On the Sioux issue, it's naming a team after a group of people, which is just weird.  On the Bison issue, it's not like once one group has claimed their (non-human) totem, no other group can.
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Re: Bison offensive?
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2009, 09:16:26 AM »
Bumping this because it's April 2nd.
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Re: Bison offensive?
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2009, 11:28:17 AM »
Bumping this because it's April 2nd.

Thats kinda random ;)

NDSU has no plans to change.
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Re: Bison offensive?
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2009, 12:10:48 PM »
NDSU has no plans to change.

I demand change!   :blob8:
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Re: Bison offensive?
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2009, 12:22:42 PM »
haha, you can try but I dont think they will care ;) ... You arent even an NDSU student :P


BTW nice smiley!
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