| 1930 |
UND adopts "Fighting
Sioux" without input from Alumni or Native
American people. |
| 1969 |
UND Indian Association
(UNDIA) is formed. |
| 1970 |
UNDIA protests lack of
social/educational meeting space, inadequate
Indian Studies program, and use of the
"Fighting Sioux" symbol. |
| 1971 |
UNDIA Cultural Center is
dedicated. Indian Studies program adds two
classes. |
| 1972 |
Several UND
fraternities/sororities create offensive snow
sculptures. UNDIA members ask to have them
removed. No action is taken. UNDIA members
demolish sculptures. A Native student is
arrested. UND President posts bond. Charges are
later dropped. Members of the UND student
community quoted in Dakota Student,
"better dead than red" and "the
only good Indian is a dead Indian." |
| 1973 |
UNDIA raises issue of local
schools using Indigenous people as mascots. Sign
posted in local business reads, "Redskins,
go back to the reservations, leave their name
alone." |
| 1990 |
Members of UNDIA continue
to protest use of Native people as mascots and
nicknames. |
| 1992 |
- Local schools discontinue
use of offensive monikers.
- Members of UND Greek
community harass Native children during
the homecoming parade.
- Students Organized Against
Racism (SOAR) is formed.
- Educational forums are held.
- Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
calls for the end of name use
|
| 1993 |
- UND Faculty Senate passes
resolution to discontinue use of
"Fighting Sioux."
- UND President retires the
use of the Black Hawk symbol.
- Dakota, Nakota, Lakota
Summit V calls for end of name use
- American Jewish Committee
calls for end of name use
- Anti-Semitism Subcommittee
of the National Affairs Commission calls
for end of name use
- National Affairs Steering
Committee calls for end of name use
|
| 1994 |
- NDSU accused of
demonstrating derogatory behavior toward
Native symbols at basketball game. NDSU
President apologizes.
- National Coalition on Racism
in Sports and the Media calls for end of
name use
- National Association of
Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native
American Journalists (UNITY) calls for
end of name use
|
| 1995 |
UND American Indian
students protest use of "Fighting
Sioux." |
| 1996 |
|
| 1997 |
- More educational forums
held.
- Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
calls for end of name use
- National Affairs Commission
calls for end of name use
- Civil Rights Committee calls
for end of name use
|
| 1998 |
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| 1999 |
- UND Student Senate passes
resolution to discontinue use of
"Fighting Sioux." Student body
president vetos resolution.
- Similar resolution brought
before N.D. House of Representatives,
receives a "do not pass" vote.
- UND ROTC Battalion drops use
of "Fighting Sioux."
- UND Multicultural
Awareness Committee (MAC) calls
for end of name use
- Three Affiliated Tribes
calls for end of name use
- Seven tribes call for end of
name use: Spirit Lake Nation, Crow Creek
Sioux Tribe, Rosebud Sioux Tribe,
Sisseton/Wahpeton Sioux Tribe, Turtle
Mountain Band of Chippewa, Yankton Sioux
Tribe, Oglala Sioux Tribe
- UND President Kupchella
introduces a new logo, created by a
Chippewa artist
- Student Political
Action Network (SPAN)
calls for end of name use
- Under pressure, Kupchella
decides to suspend use of new logo for
sports teams indefinitely
- UND professors request that
the University Council be convened in
order to develop a process to retire the
name
|
| 2000 |
- President Kupchella forms
Names Commission to study the name and to
suggest possible future courses of action
- UND faculty group Campus
Committee on Human Rights criticizes Kupchella's
member selections for the Names
Commission
- During a "Rally For
Change" protest, three UND students
are arrested for blocking University
Avenue to protest the name's continued
use
- The N.D. State Board of
Higher Education preempts President
Kupchella and unilaterally declares that
UND will keep the "Fighting
Sioux" nickname
|
| 2001 |
- A letter from late 2000
surfaces in which Ralph Engelstad
threatened to pull his $100 million
"donation" should the nickname
be changed, most likely prompting the
State Board's rash mandate in December
2000
- A new Engelstad Arena
nears completion
- The new logo is placed on
UND basketball courts
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