What you can do . . .
  • E-Mail the one person who can change the "Fighting Sioux" nickname, once and for all: UND President Charles Kupchella c_kupchella@und.nodak.edu

    President Charles Kupchella
    P.O.Box 8193
    Grand Forks, ND 58202
    Telephone: (701) 777-2121
    Fax: (701) 777-3866
    Alternate Email:
    president@und.nodak.edu

  • Send first-hand information regarding the name-change issue to the United States Department of Education, which is conducting an inquiry into this matter:

    U.S. Department of Education
    Office for Civil Rights
    Customer Service Team
    Mary E. Switzer Building
    330 C Street, SW
    Washington, D.C. 20202

    Telephone: 1-800-421-3481
    FAX: 202-205-9862
    TDD: 877-521-2172
    Email:
    OCR@ed.gov

    http://www.ed.gov/offices/OCR/

  • Come to a BRIDGES or Campus Committee on Human Rights (CCHR) meeting, where students and faculty discuss ways to educate the community and university, and work to affect progressive change on this issue. Call for info: (701) 777-2478
  • Write a letter to either the Grand Forks Herald or the Dakota Student, or other papers nationwide, explaining your feelings on the issue

    Grand Forks Herald
    Attn: Letters to the Editor
    375 Second Ave. North
    Grand Forks, ND, 58203

    (701) 780-1261
    or (800) 477-6572 ext. 261

    letters@gfherald.com

     

    Dakota Student

    Box 8177 University Station
    Grand Forks, ND 58202-8177

    (701) 777-2679
    dstudent@sage.und.nodak.edu

  • Visually support a change by wearing a badge that proclaims where you stand... or re-use or create new graphical presentations to do the same
  • Encourage discussion amongst family and friends. If you yourself do not agree with a name change, try arguing from the other side of the debate, and see what you can learn by defending a name change
  • Follow in the long tradition of Native Resistance to all forms of imperialism and engage in direct action!!

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will."

- Fredrick Douglass