‘Time is a great healer’

North Dakotans reflect on Native-associated sports team names and recent changes

The recent retirement of the Washington professional football team’s “Redskins” nickname and logo, along with reports of other sports teams reconsidering Native-themed names and logos, has some North Dakotans reflecting on the long, controversial history of the University of North Dakota’s “Fighting Sioux” moniker. For David Dodds, an alumnus and director of communications...

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