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<blockquote data-quote="Justice C. Bigler" data-source="post: 41083" data-attributes="member: 74">Re: When Political Correctness BackfiresYes.Doesn&#039;t matter if you are full blooded or no blooded. It&#039;s about respect and reverence for those who died before you trying (and in this instance failing) to protect their culture, history and way of life. The &quot;Sioux&quot; people never called themselves, &quot;Sioux&quot;. They called themselves, Lakota, or Dakota, or more specifically Oglala, or Miniconjou, or Hunkpapa, or any of several others. &quot;Sioux&quot; originated in the ignorant and hate filled speech used by the people who were trying to (and succeeding) in committing genocide up that particular group of people. Yes, the term &quot;Sioux&quot; has some etymological evolutionary similarities as the N word, and my Lakota friends (people who are full blooded and did grow up on the Reservation, and carry the language and oral history with them today) absolutely hate the term. The fact that people from this culture have come to often refer to themselves by the term &quot;Sioux&quot; is a sick and twisted trick payed upon them by history. Again, just more proof of the low depths to which the native inhabitants of the Americas have been ground and pulverized into all but the finest of dust in order to have them and their culture swept away by the winds of history. It would be better to have the last traces of American Indian genetics, history, culture and language dissappear forever, than to only keep it alive in such a derogatory manner as sports mascots.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Justice C. Bigler, post: 41083, member: 74"] Re: When Political Correctness Backfires Yes. Doesn't matter if you are full blooded or no blooded. It's about respect and reverence for those who died before you trying (and in this instance failing) to protect their culture, history and way of life. The "Sioux" people never called themselves, "Sioux". They called themselves, Lakota, or Dakota, or more specifically Oglala, or Miniconjou, or Hunkpapa, or any of several others. "Sioux" originated in the ignorant and hate filled speech used by the people who were trying to (and succeeding) in committing genocide up that particular group of people. Yes, the term "Sioux" has some etymological evolutionary similarities as the N word, and my Lakota friends (people who are full blooded and did grow up on the Reservation, and carry the language and oral history with them today) absolutely hate the term. The fact that people from this culture have come to often refer to themselves by the term "Sioux" is a sick and twisted trick payed upon them by history. Again, just more proof of the low depths to which the native inhabitants of the Americas have been ground and pulverized into all but the finest of dust in order to have them and their culture swept away by the winds of history. It would be better to have the last traces of American Indian genetics, history, culture and language dissappear forever, than to only keep it alive in such a derogatory manner as sports mascots. [/QUOTE]

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