Standing Rock voters reject name change to Oyate

[star2city]

Hadn't seen this posted, but the Sioux people, at least at Standing Rock, do not object to the name Sioux. The tribal council would support spending money for voting on this issue, but wouldn't support a vote on "Sioux" as a UND nickname, when it apparently wouldn't have cost anything with the existing referendum.

Standing Rock rejects changing name from Sioux to Oyate in Tribal Vote

Comment on the Bismarck Tribune page:

" I guess that settles that question, "WE ARE SIOUX".... Now lets see what the anti-everything group comes with next. Bet those anti's are feeling really stupid bout now. Going around to all the districts acting like victims, giving power point presentation on why the SIOUX name is degrading, after all that.

[redwing77]

Really, if they changed their name to Oyate, then they'd lose all of their leverage in the UND nickname issue.

It would also destroy, or at least harm severely, the victim status attributed to being a "Sioux."

Changing one's name is a sure representation of freedom, something that isn't allowed when you are not free.

[Goon]

Is this what we are talking about? Oyate

[Chief Illiniwek Supporter]

It would also destroy, or at least harm severely, the victim status attributed to being a "Sioux

Yep; when all of the textbooks, websites, etc. talk about this tribe or that tribe being "victims" of smallpox blankets and cavalry charges you need to keep that name if you want to keep on claiming problems 150 years later.

The tribal council would support spending money for voting on this issue, but wouldn't support a vote on "Sioux" as a UND nickname, when it apparently wouldn't have cost anything with the existing referendum.

I wonder why

this

referendum wasn't linked to a party given by young women in their late teens or early twenties.