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Fighting Sioux nickname focus of talks, lawsuit

Make room for one more chapter in the saga of the Fighting Sioux, better known as the nickname that would not die.

Six American Indian students from the University of North Dakota announced Thursday that they have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s recently enacted Fighting Sioux law, which says the university must retain the hotly debated nickname and logo. They want a court order directing the state Board of Higher education and UND to drop it for good.

Meanwhile, North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple is leading a delegation of state legislators scheduled to meet Friday with officials from the National Collegiate Athletic Association at their headquarters in Indianapolis.

The only item on the agenda: What to do about the Fighting Sioux, a nickname and logo banned by the NCAA but now mandatory under North Dakota law.

The Fighting Sioux appeared to have gasped its last breath in April 2010, when the state Board of Higher Education voted to discontinue the nickname and logo after years of wrangling over the controversial nickname.

Source: Washington Times

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