Board member Robert Sperling told Dorris his resolution would only postpone the inevitable.
“The time has come,” he said. “(The chief) bothered a whole lot of people for a long time.”
Graduate student Genevieve Tenoso, a Lakota Sioux, told the board before the vote that by not doing away with the chief sooner, they helped create an atmosphere in which she sometimes didn’t feel safe.
“I haven’t had one single day on this campus when something didn’t remind me of the Indian you prefer me to be rather than the living, breathing native person that I am,” she said.
--Associated Press© Copyright 2005 by DiverseEducation.com
