Indian logo banned at U. of North Dakota after NCAA threat

DICKINSON, N.D., AP - "North Dakota's Board of Higher Education has agreed to drop the University of North Dakota's

• Fighting Sioux nickname and Indian head logo,

a move intended to resolve a decades-long campus dispute about whether the name demeans American Indians.... The debate came to a head in September 2005, when the NCAA declared Fighting Sioux as

• "hostile and abusive" to American Indians and said

• UND would be barred from hosting NCAA postseason tournaments

if the school continued using it." 'Board Advocates Dumping UND Nickname, Logo,' AP story on msnbc.com, via Lucianne.com. banner from UND website.

• Cleveland Indians logo above from MLB.com so far has not been banned as 'hostile and abusive.'

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