cclarkblues said:
If they want to have a name that best describes the area they reside in, then they should change it to The Lying Bastards and the logo should be dollar signs on the helmets.
Just out of deviltry, I suggest a sanitized paraphrase: the "Primrose Pelts."
:lol:
Myself, I kinda agree that “Redskins” should be gone ... since the term long ago drifted into the insulting category (although it started out as simply a handy descriptor).
On the other hand, I never understood dumping "Fighting Sioux" as a moniker. After all, back in the day, that's what they did ... and did it damned well. Ask Custer (well, his ghost if you can call him up).
Better yet, ask the Cheyenne, the Arikara, the Kiowa, and so on. Thinking along those lines, it amuses me (somewhat) when Sioux "claim" the Black Hills (for example) as their "ancestral homeland." In reality, the Sioux didn't arrive in the region until something like 1700-1725, and perhaps even later. (Keeping mind that dates are somewhat elastic in Native American history.) Until then, they were scattered over Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Then various Chippawa tribes (aided by arms supplied by the French) kicked most of them out of that area. But the Sioux adapted amazingly well to a horse-based culture, and thrived. But, even with almost-constant warfare, it took decades to impose their occupation. In fact, some of them like to mark 1776 as the year they cemented their hold on the Black Hills. And make no mistake about it: Their primary claim to the land was “by right of conquest.”
