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...unusual assemblage of objects adorns the walls of Harvard University President Drew G. Faust’s office in Massachusetts Hall. An Ovimbundu walking stick from Angola, a ceremonial ladle from Liberia, a Hunkpapa Sioux staff from the Great Plains of the Dakotas, and an impressionist painting by Milton Avery, entitled “Still Life with Woman,” all stray from the more traditional Western art that former Harvard presidents have used to decorate the room...
...Indian—have lingered for years, but a series of events brought the issue to the forefront of campus debate this fall.In November, Athletic Director JoAnn “Josie” Harper publicly apologized for inviting the University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux hockey team to a tournament being held at Dartmouth.The University of North Dakota’s continuing use of a Native American mascot “is offensive and wrong,” she wrote in a letter to the editor published in The Dartmouth, the student-run daily.A week later...
...seen as a corollary of changes in Chinese society. Where Chinese military doctrine was once based on human-wave attacks, it now stresses the killing power of technology. There's nothing new, or particularly frightening, about such a transformation; it's what nations do all the time. If the Sioux hadn't learned how to handle horses and shoot Winchesters, they wouldn't have wiped out Custer's forces at the Little Bighorn...
...positive impact on hundreds of millions of people around the world. Friedman defied the political correctness of his day to show that America's unique success was due to its founders' creation of a system that minimized the government and maximized personal and market freedoms. ROGER E. HAUGO Sioux Falls...
...they reinforce positive cultural stereotypes (e.g., Minutemen, Colonials) or challenge non-negative cultural stereotypes (e.g., Fighting Quakers). On the other hand, most mascot names that refer to Native Americans reinforce negative cultural stereotypes: the Redskins (harking back to the notion that all Native Americans have red skin), the Fighting Sioux (reminding us that even until the 1950s, American children watched TV shows that depicted “the Injuns” as warrior peoples). If cultural progressivism is about creating inclusive communities where everyone has adequate opportunities to mold his image for himself—and especially historically marginalized peoples...