North Dakota forced to remove school signs

GRAND FORKS, N.D. – Workers are removing the Fighting Sioux sign from outside North Dakota’s hockey arena after a years-long fight with the NCAA.

Large white letters reading “Home of the Fighting Sioux” were being taken down Monday at Ralph Engelstad Arena in Grand Forks.

It’s one of six signs that must be removed under an agreement with the NCAA in the controversy about whether the school’s nickname and logo were insensitive to local American Indian tribes. The logo depicts an American Indian warrior.

Arena spokesman Chris Semrau told the Grand Forks Herald that removing the sign will take most of the week. It’ll be replaced next month with one reading “Home of North Dakota Hockey.”