Dartmouth in the WSJ

Colleges and Universities A-Z Dartmouth College
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<p>“Go Big Green”!
“Go Indians”?</p>

<p>“Interestingly, the NCAA has made an exception for the Braves of the University of North Carolina-Pembroke because the school has a tradition of enrolling Native American students. Maybe this will clear the way for Dartmouth's Big Green to restore its Indian mascot and team name, Indians, which the school dropped in 1969. After all, Dartmouth was founded by Eleazar Wheelock, a Puritan minister, for the purpose of providing "Christianization, instruction and education" for "Youth of the Indian Tribes of this Land. . .and also of English Youth and any others." The college still offers a major in Native American Studies and since 1970 has graduated some 500 American Indians.”
<a href="http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110007090%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110007090&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>My parents say that there were still people dressing up as Indians and defending it in the 80s.</p>