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Spirit Lake’s Eunice Davidson remains optimistic about saving the nickname PressPass

Spirit Lake’s Eunice Davidson remains optimistic about saving the nickname Eunice Davidson would like to go to college and study history, to learn more about the people who came before and shaped the woman she has become. As a contributor to a Sioux display at the Lake Region Heritage Center, and director of the museum from 2008 to 2011, she has spent much time in the company of her ancestors.

By Chuck Haga , February 25, 2012

Petition group joins N.D. Supreme Court case on Sioux nickname PressPass

Petition group joins N.D. Supreme Court case on Sioux nickname North Dakota's high court has added the sponsoring committee for the Fighting Sioux nickname ballot measures as a party to the nickname case brought last week by the State Board of Higher Education. The court also has set March 2 as the deadline for filing of briefs in response to the action brought Feb. 17 by the attorney general’s office.

By Chuck Haga , February 22, 2012

Petitioners press on with nickname initiative while awaiting N.D. high court action PressPass

Petitioners press on with nickname initiative while awaiting N.D. high court action Supporters of the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname say they are better than halfway to collecting the 27,000 signatures they need to get the constitutional amendment on the November general election ballot.

By Chuck Haga , February 20, 2012

Referral group spokesman: No proof retaining nickname will cause Big Sky expulsion, NCAA sanction harm PressPass

Referral group spokesman: No proof retaining nickname will cause Big Sky expulsion, NCAA sanction harm A spokesman for the group seeking to preserve UND’s Fighting Sioux nickname dismissed the contention by a growing number of UND-affiliated people that keeping the name will cost the university its membership in the Big Sky Conference or cause other significant damage.

By Chuck Haga , February 17, 2012

Pro-nickname group's biggest financial supporter is 1959 UND alum PressPass

Pro-nickname group's biggest financial supporter is 1959 UND alum Norman Hoffman, a 1959 chemical engineering graduate of UND who now lives in Waconia, Minn., is the largest contributor to the campaign to put the Fighting Sioux name on the state’s primary election ballot in June, giving $10,000, according to financial disclosure reports released this week by the secretary of state’s office.

By Chuck Haga , February 15, 2012

Reaction to Sioux nickname varies across the country PressPass

Reaction to Sioux nickname varies across the country “Congratulations, people of North Dakota.” So wrote Don Surber on Thursday in the online edition of the Daily Mail in Charleston, W. Va., responding to the filing of petitions earlier in the week to put the Fighting Sioux nickname issue to a statewide vote. “You have forced the hand of the people who run UND to return the names of the school’s teams to the Fighting Sioux,” Surber wrote.

By Chuck Haga , February 11, 2012

Establishing a front: UND alumni leader issues sharp warning if Fighting Sioux nickname is sustained PressPass

Establishing a front: UND alumni leader issues sharp warning if Fighting Sioux nickname is sustained “The retirement of the Fighting Sioux nickname must continue,” UND Alumni Association head Tim O'Keefe writes, "as the issues and dangers “have extended themselves way beyond the sanctions imposed by the NCAA on teams that used American Indian imagery.”

By Chuck Haga , February 10, 2012

Fighting Sioux nickname referral within 1,000 names of goal PressPass

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 statewide vote on the issue, Minot attorney Reed Soderstrom said today.

By Chuck Haga , February 03, 2012

Nickname petition drive 'in striking distance' of needed signatures, spokesman says PressPass

Nickname petition drive 'in striking distance' of needed signatures, spokesman says A leader of the petition drive to restore UND’s Fighting Sioux nickname through a statewide vote said today that “we’re in striking distance” of the 13,500 signatures needed by Tuesday’s filing deadline.

By Chuck Haga , February 02, 2012

Nickname supporters on making Feb. 7 petition deadline: ‘It’s going to be close’ PressPass

Nickname supporters on making Feb. 7 petition deadline: ‘It’s going to be close’ With just two weeks to go before the Feb. 7 filing deadline, the petition drive to put the Fighting Sioux nickname issue to a statewide vote in June has about a 50-50 chance of succeeding, spokesman Reed Soderstrom said Thursday.

By Chuck Haga , January 26, 2012

Wrong fight for NCAA? Writer on Time.com says UND nickname ‘harmless,’ even ‘positive’ PressPass

The long and continuing fight over the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname has caught the attention of Time.com, which reports this week on the NCAA’s campaign against the use of American Indian nicknames and “the puzzling, quite unique case of North Dakota.”

By Chuck Haga , December 19, 2011

Nickname foes appeal to tribal council PressPass

Their goal: To remove nickname supporters’ authority to sue NCAA
Spirit Lake opponents of UND’s Fighting Sioux nickname asked the Tribal Council on Friday to rescind authority the council gave to the pro-nickname Committee for Understanding and Respect to speak for the tribe on the issue.

By Chuck Haga , November 04, 2011

Genia Jetty-Wilkie, Grand Forks, column: N.D., don’t disrespect Spirit Lake’s vote PressPass

Genia Jetty-Wilkie, Grand Forks, column: N.D., don’t disrespect Spirit Lake’s vote I am an American Indian female from the Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe. I feel very strongly about keeping the Fighting Sioux nickname and logo at UND.

By Genia Jetty-Wilkie , October 23, 2011

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Three bills seeking to preserve Fighting Sioux nickname to get joint hearing

Three bills seeking to preserve Fighting Sioux nickname to get joint hearing Three bills seeking to preserve UND’s Fighting Sioux nickname will get a joint hearing next week before the North Dakota House Education Committee.

By Chuck Haga , January 19, 2011

NCAA: Spirit Lake request will not stop logo retirement

NCAA: Spirit Lake request will not stop logo retirement An NCAA spokesman indicated Tuesday that an appeal by members of the Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe will not change the established timeline for retirement of UND’s Fighting Sioux nickname and logo.

By Chuck Haga , November 30, 2010

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