sioux_xuois

How long did you live on the reservations? A couple weeks? A couple months? A couple years? Even if you spent 5 years on a reservation you probably couldn't understand it all. It could be partly because you are an outsider, it could be because your view is already skewed, and I don't mean that in a bad way. I mean that you have your interpretation of what everything should be already. Yeah, I know Kevin Costner could do it successfully, but that was a movie. Even those that have not grown up on the reservations are not a part of whatever inner social circles exist. So to think you can "feel" how they feel is absurd in my opinion. As for getting rid of the reservations. In my opinion, all that would do is change a couple signs, demolish some casinos, and cause even more disorganization to a people that have been screwed over by a government that promised to take care of them. Everyone makes it sound like doing away with reservations are going to solve anything. Unemployment will still be high. Alcoholism, suicidal rates, will still be the highest in the nation. Do you think that the State governments are going to do any better than the Federal/tribal governments already in place? no. That is not the answer. and no. I don't know the answer. In Sioux they say Ceyakiya yo. and that means to pray.

And you wonder why the Sioux people don't want UND to use their name.........lol. Before you go telling the only people in this country who have a legitimate claim on it to leave, you should do your homework there, darell. That mentality of yours is the main reason that the name will eventually change. Look at this board, it is suppose to be discussing the Sioux name, instead it is a place to pick apart everything related to the Sioux people and show why those who oppose the name are wrong for doing so. So what if Means is a joke, that doesn't mean disbanding reservations. But I guess it makes you a big man talking smack about people who can not defend themselves. And to read that only now you see that Lakota = friend? wow..........the next thing you realize is that the Sioux are really the Lakota, or Dakota, or Nakota, or that the map of the "Fighting Sioux" lands only slightly encompasses ND.....does that mean we need the approval of the other Sioux indians before we can use the logo? I've been apart of the UND community for over 20 years now, and I would rather not post my opinion at all, but your ignorance has forced me to let you know that there is a rather large group of fans that would love to keep the name, but if it comes at the expense of hurting others, then change it and be done with it. As for your comments, they go both ways, love it or leave it. If you want I can even give you a ride to the border, either one.