By: Dale Wetzel
BISMARCK — The state Board of Higher Education has endorsed Chancellor William Goetz’s plan to meet with Sioux tribal leaders to discuss the University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux nickname.
The meetings would begin what Goetz described as an “orderly, deliberative process” of deciding whether it may be possible to keep UND’s nickname and American Indian head logo in the aftermath of a lawsuit.
Board members, meeting at Bismarck State College on Thursday, got a fresh set of appeals to discard the nickname and logo. It shows the profile of an American Indian man wearing feathers, with streaks of paint on his face.
David Gipp, president of United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, said the nickname and logo cause problems for Indian students at UND. Gipp is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
“Regardless of their tribal background or their views on the subject, students who attend UND are invariably drawn into situations that range from inappropriate to uncomfortable to racially charged,” Gipp said in a letter submitted to board members.
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