NCAA backpedals on Indian name ban

Contributed by: filbert Friday, August 12 2005 @ 05:26 AM CST

It would seem that the NCAA didn’t get the whole story[*1] on Florida State University and the Seminole tribe.

Among the reasons, he said, are that the NCAA Executive Committee thought the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma opposed FSU’s use of the Seminole image as a mascot.

That was based partly on letters the committee received from David Narcomey, a member of the General Council of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma.

But Narcomey was not authorized to speak on behalf of the tribal nation and “misrepresented” its view, the tribe’s attorney general said Thursday.

In fact, Narcomey pushed for a tribal resolution condemning the use of American Indian mascots and imagery, specifically at FSU. It was defeated last month by an 18-2 vote.

Perhaps there’s a job waiting for the NCAA bureaucrats on the 9/11 Commission.

Via Free Republic[*2] .