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Fun Fact: 17,213 signed the petition to get the logo/mascot changed.

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These mascots don't necessarily represent anything; not opportunity, oppression, nor power. They're just pictures that are fitting alongside a team name. Unfortunately, no matter where you go, you'll find people who are upset by something and those that don't have an issue with it. It's nearly impossible to please everyone.

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Fun Fact: Jonathan Toews of the Chicago Blackhawks played two seasons (2005-06, 2006-07) for the University of North Dakota when their hockey team was still known as the Fighting Sioux.

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Although a lot of people don't see an issue with it, many people who have Native American heritage still have close connections to that culture and find things like the University of North Dakota's logo offensive. It can be seen as a disgrace to the culture and that they're disrespecting the figures of their personal history.

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The controversy towards the University's logo came from Native Americans, those with Native American Heritage, student organizations, and their own staff members. The logo was recognized to be "hostile and abusive" to the Sioux and Native American, so in 2012 the Board of Higher Education decided that it was time for UND's current Native American-based mascot and logo to go.

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A Sioux is " A member of a group of Native American peoples, comprising the Lakota, the Santee, the Yankton, and the Yanktonai, inhabiting the northern Great Plains from Minnesota to eastern Montana and from southern Saskatchewan to Nebraska" (thefreedictionary.com).

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The North Dakota athletics department original logo and mascot, the Fighting Sioux, was adapted in 1930 and caused much controversy due to it's Native American related logo.

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The new logo, the North Dakota Fighting Hawks.

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The old logo, the North Dakota Fighting Sioux.