text: Opinion: How does 'Sioux' honor Native people?
  "Some argue that Native Americans should feel honored. That such thinking ignores the complex history of European colonization is secondary to the simple fact that it is not for us to determine how Native Americans should or should not feel.
  I ask you: For what possible reason could Native people wish for the removal of the Sioux name and logo, other than a deep desire to restore dignity that was and is continually denied them? Arrogance? Stubbornness? Boredom? These are not attitudes that one can sustain over 30 years of thoughtful, peaceable protest.
  What do any of us truly want other than recognition as human? Specifically human, not an abstraction, a symbol, a stereotype. What we all fundamentally want is for others to know who we really are.
  What so deeply saddens me is that we let our true character as North Dakotans become obscured by the politics and financial interests of a university. The country does not know who we really are."