Why aren't they focusing on the real issues?

[CMSioux]

I think it's time we turned the tables on the nickname opponents and started asking them the tough questions. Questions like:

What are you doing to address the real documented issues facing Native Americans such as unemployment, substance abuse, suicide and domestic violence?

Where would you rank the retirement of the Fighting Sioux nickname in importance to the issues of unemployement, substance abuse, suicide and domestic violence?

How would retiring the Fighting Sioux nickname help Native Americans with the issues of unemployment, substance abuse, suicide and domestic violence?

What is the UNDIA and other organizations on and off campus doing to address these issues?

What time and resources are the other organizations that are so vocally against the nickname putting toward these issues? How does it compare with the time and resources they are putting toward retiring the nickname?

I would love to see Chuch Haga from the Grand Forks Herald get a round table discussion going on this issue and ask these questions of those organizations and individuals who are claiming the nickname is holding back Native Americans.

With all the negative stereotypes of native americans that exist and all the social problems they face it's hard to believe that removing any association with an institution of higher education or eliminating one of the only positive images in the public's eye would help overcome these problems.

Let's start asking them these questions.

[ticklethetwine]

I think it's time we turned the tables on the nickname proponents and started asking them the tough questions. Questions like:

What are you doing to address the real documented issues facing Native Americans such as unemployment, substance abuse, suicide and domestic violence?

Where would you rank the retirement of the Fighting Sioux nickname in importance to the issues of unemployement, substance abuse, suicide and domestic violence?

How would retiring the Fighting Sioux nickname help Native Americans with the issues of unemployment, substance abuse, suicide and domestic violence?

What is the UNDIA and other organizations on and off campus doing to address these issues?

What time and resources are the other organizations that are so vocally against the nickname putting toward these issues? How does it compare with the time and resources they are putting toward retiring the nickname?

I would love to see Chuch Haga from the Grand Forks Herald get a round table discussion going on this issue and ask these questions of those organizations and individuals who are claiming the nickname is holding back Native Americans.

With all the negative stereotypes of native americans that exist and all the social problems they face it's hard to believe that removing any association with an institution of higher education or eliminating one of the only positive images in the public's eye would help overcome these problems.

Let's start asking them these questions.

I am afraid most would have no answer as they probably have not looked past the nickname issue. I am not talking about the NA who live it everyday but those who claim to speak for the NA.

[ScottM]

I presume you really mean "nickname opponents".

[yababy8]

I would love to see Chuch Haga from the Grand Forks Herald get a round table discussion going on this issue and ask these questions of those organizations and individuals who are claiming the nickname is holding back Native Americans.

Good luck with that one. Mr Haga likes to write articles of propaganda where he gets quotes from anti-nickname criminal/murderers? and convieniently forgets to get a single quote from one of a 70% majority.

How is he still getting a pay check from our free and unbias press??

Oh and he ignores emails calling him out on these facts!

Doubt he will be doing any round tables any time soon!

[The Sicatoka]

The guy doing the best job of reporting the issue evenly was Tu-Uyen Tran.

From my sources, Tran was "too balanced" in the eyes of the Leigh Jeanotte crowd and they made enough noise to the assignment editors at GFH and the change to Haga was made. Haga is much more to the Jeanotte crowd's liking.