Hate mail and hate posters and racist imagery at UND

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Found hanging in Merrifield Hall in early March 2001
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Found hanging in Merrifield Hall in early March 2001
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Found by Lucy Ganje in late December 2000
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T-shirt made by NDSU fans
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T-shirt made by NDSU fans

Cartoons concerning American Indian Mascots

Money, Moniker, and Morality
University of North Dakota


1/25/01 Native American National Leader Coming and Engelstad donation refused

1/21/01 Herald Mailbag: Readers react to the UND nickname controversy

MN HIGHER ED ON SAME TRACK AS ND?

1/20/01 MORE WHITE POWER AT UND: Engelstad matches donations $261,000 to help expand Nordic Initiative

SIX WHITE MEN LOOKED AT BY GOV. HOEVEN TO REPLACE TWO FLEEING HIGHER EDUCATION BOARD MEMBERS (INDIAN HOPEFUL DISCARDED)

1/19/01  Standing Rock Council Condemns Board's Decision and starts Boycotting + Herald Editorials

 

1/16/01 Sioux Nickname from Dakota Students' Point of View

 COMING SOON!  WHAT DOES (UNCLE TOM) CLIFFORD HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE SIOUX NICKNAME ISSUE?

1/14/01 Engelstad's ultimatum: Keep UND Sioux name, or I'll dump arena, eat $35 million

READERS RESPONSE TO SIOUX NAME DECISION

Higher Ed Board Reacted Quickly To Letter

IP owner Engelstad denies interest in Nazi car

1/5/01  UND AIDS VULGARITY    OR  (SO SIOUX ME)

1/9/01 New Logo Played Role in Nickname Debate-A letter from Tom Petros

12/31/2000 Tribal leaders consider boycott of UND

SIOUX NICKNAME: Native leaders to voice concerns

NEW!  Dec. 22  Article By Glenda Miskin re: Sioux Name Decision That the NY Times Just Replied To

UND STAFF COMMENTS TO RACIST BOARD DECISION

Dr. Jan Zahrly, Management
Lucy Ganje, Communication
Dr. Michael Wittgraf, Music
Dr. Jerry Bass, Education
Dr. Cindy Juntunen, Counseling
Dr. Margaret Zidon, Education
Dr. Jim Mochoruk, History
Dr. Mary Jane Schneider, Indian Studies
Dr. Don Poochigian, Philosophy
Dr. Mary Cutler, Theatre Arts

 

NEW!  Before a recent football game between UND and North Dakota State University NDSU fans printed shirts with the image of a stereotypical Indian man performing a sexual act on a Bison, the nickname of NDSU teams. Click  HERE to see the controversial cartoon

  The Herald is hinting of possible violence against Native Americans if the Sioux name is changed.

Engelstad Shame hosting parties honoring Adolf  Hitler. A July 1994 article in The Nation related that Engelstad's private suite at his Las Vegas casino is decorated with swastikas, portraits of prominent Nazis, and has a collection of skulls of Holocaust victims. However when he appeared before the Mississippi Gaming Commission in September 1994, Engelstad denied that the parties were held to honor Hitler. He contended that he was only "fascinated with the causes of the war (WWII)."

 NEW!  February 09, 2000 IP owner Engelstad denies interest in Nazi car

Engelstad Partnered With "Mouthpiece for the Mob"

 THE DIRTY DOZEN: ACADEMIA'S SKANKIEST FUNDERS SO: Excerpt from Lingua Franca, The Review of Academic Life DT: March/April 1993

Attorney may subpoena alumnus Engelstad, and UND President Kupchella in homecoming protest trial

NEW!  Las Vegas Sun Reports About  Engelstad and the Arena caught up in university nickname controversy

Trouble in Buloxi "Ain't no stockholders, ain't no god--- bondholders, ain't no friggin' mortgage holders that are going to bounce us out." (Engelstad)

Bush and Engelstad Bush has largely backed off ill-informed remarks on tribal government sovereignty that generated opposition to his campaign in Indian country. The candidate said states should have control over tribal government casinos on federal reservations.

Looking A Gift Horse In The Mouth by Itancan'Win Itazipco/Mniconjou Lakota

 

 

UND Rules Over A Court's Judge Through Dean Boyd , Counsel Evans  & Campus Police (by two UND students)

Kupchella continues Sioux Nickname process, & UND Sport Fan Behavior (response from a reader)

1/12/01     Kupchella Tries To Cover Up "give me another year he says" and give us another cuppa cella?

1/12/01 Kupchella Plays Politician

1/12/01 Larry Isaak Bean Counter/The chancellor of the North Dakota University System responded Friday to an article printed in the Grand Forks Herald.

1/12/01 Marilyn Haggarty's xenophobic column attempts to see the Pollyana side of racism or smile and say S.E.M.E.N.