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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 664096, member: 3850"] That was what stopped the NCAA cold....the NCAA, as usual, screwed up. They consulted a Seminole activist in Oklahoma who told the NCAA that FSU's use of the name was racist and distasteful to the tribe. But...FSU pointed out that the use of the name Seminole had indeed come before the Seminole Tribe of Oklahoma and they supported, by vote, the desires of their brother tribe...The Seminole Tribe of Florida. The Seminole Tribe of Florida sent a letter to the NCAA stating that they have supported FSU's use of their name and of their use of Osceola as a symbol. They stuck it in when they wondered if this was yet another case of paternalism where an organization of white men told the indian what he wanted. [/QUOTE]