The term “Fighting Sioux,” represents only a “slice” of what the Lakota and Dakota people were, and it must be changed, the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe said here Tuesday.“It’s part of who we were, not who we are,” Ron His Horse Is Thunder said during a two-hour news conference at UND’s American Indian Center.
“It’s part of who we were, not who we are,” Ron His Horse Is Thunder said during a two-hour news conference at UND’s American Indian Center.
He and three other leaders of the Standing Rock Nation, in southern North Dakota and northern South Dakota, were invited to UND by campus Indian leaders to talk about their concerns about the Fighting Sioux nickname and logo. read more
