INJUNS!

"I could care less what the Seminole Tribe in Oklahoma think. They're in Oklahoma," said [Florida State University] trustee Richard McFarlain, a Tallahassee lawyer. "They got run out of here by - who was it, Andrew Jackson or somebody like that? The Trail of Tears? The real Seminoles stayed here."

quoted in St. Petersburg Times, August 11, 2005, P 1B.

Of course, the Seminoles were eventually granted an exemption by the NCAA, allowing them to retain full use of their racist mascot, which the Fighting Sioux of North Dakota were not:

NCAA: N. Dakota Can't Use Fighting Sioux

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 8:36 p.m. ET

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) -- The North Dakota Fighting Sioux will remain on the list of college nicknames the NCAA doesn't want used in postseason play.

The university's appeal was rejected by an NCAA review committee because it did not have the support of the three federally recognized Sioux tribes of North Dakota, the association said Wednesday.

''Although the University of North Dakota maintained that its logo and nickname are used with consummate respect, the position of the namesake tribes and those affected by the hostile or abusive environment that the nickname and logo create take precedence,'' NCAA vice president Bernard Franklin said.

North Dakota President Charles Kupchella said he would appeal the decision to the NCAA's executive committee.