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Stick a feather in it, Fighting Sioux nickname retired

August 16, 2011
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Stick a feather in it, Fighting Sioux nickname retired

The three prong dispute between North Dakota, the state legislature, and the NCAA regarding the North Dakota nickname Fighting Sioux comes to an end after much legal and political debate.  North Dakota’s Board of Higher Education will retire the school nickname and logo come 2012. With the general population becoming overly sensitive with just about everything and the threat that lawmakers would repeal a law that required the school to not change its nickname and logo, there was growing...

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