From 9News:
DENVER – All four colleges brought fans from all over the country to watch the best hockey teams in the country. But only one brought with it a mascot deemed officially “hostile and abusive” by the NCAA.
“We are nothing more than mascot images (to them). We are not human beings,” said Franky Jackson, a former North Dakota resident and current member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Sioux tribe.
The University of North Dakota athletic teams have been called the “Fighting Sioux” since the 1930s. Over the years, the logo has evolved but remained a feather-wearing, male warrior, which Jackson says is insulting.
“It belittles Native Americans,” said Jackson. “The high cheekbones, the protruding nose.”
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