10/2/2023 0 Comments American indian thunderbird![]() (William Woody, Special to The Colorado Sun)Īdding schools to the list as the deadline approaches is the latest issue that has left schools and districts demanding more communication and guidance from the CCIA. Schools out of compliance with state law prohibiting the use of Native American imagery have been advised to cover up trophy cases containing objects with the offensive logos. Montrose High School varsity football team memorabilia on display in a trophy case at Montrose High School on Monday morning. He said he called Redhorse and officials with the state Attorney General’s Office on Tuesday and was told that the school could do such things as cover up trophies and other memorabilia that have Thunderbird images, remove banners and have students wear uniforms inside out to conceal Thunderbird images. He said he was not notified by CCIA of the April 6 discussion. “This puts us between a rock and a hard place - we’re not on the list now but do we start making changes? If we don’t respond now and we get on there we don’t have a lot of time for compliance.” “If you’re going to put us on there this late in the day, give us a little time to make the changes,” said David Crews, superintendent of Sangre de Cristo School District in Mosca, which adopted the Thunderbirds mascot when two San Luis Valley districts merged in 1960. And it’s unclear when they could be removed from the list as CCIA has taken votes to do so only at its quarterly meetings. If any schools are added, it would give them less than two weeks to get rid of any imagery of the mascot, which some say is unreasonably short notice. The May meeting is the last chance this year for the 12 schools still on a list released last summer to be removed. The SF lived in the forests of what is now.Colorado schools face $25K monthly fine for their “Thunderbird” mascots Close Nineteenth-century anthropologists commonly used the term Dakota to designate the entirety of the SF. (7) The SF people themselves had no term in any of their three dialects that designated the entire population, and they adopted the word "Sioux" for that purpose, (7) although their present-day descendants often abhor that term because of its derogatory origin. The SF peoples spoke three similar dialects: Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota. ![]() (5) Among the peoples to whom they applied the term were a population that before the arrival of Europeans called itself the Oceti Sakowin: the Seven Fireplaces (hereafter abbreviated SF). Is the Taylor film's Thunderbird story a genuine Native American legend? And is it an eyewitness account of a live pterosaur? To answer those questions, I investigated the folklore of the Native American people from whom the Taylor film's story allegedly came, whom the film called the "Sioux." The name "Sioux" is derived from an abbreviation of Nadowe-is-iw-ug ("lesser enemy/snake"), a pejorative term used by the Chippewa to denote traditional enemies. They called it the Thunderbird, and it has appeared in Indian tales ever since. The Indians had never seen a bird like it before. The description perfectly matches the extinct Pteranodon. There was a long, bony crest on its head, and it had a wingspan of over 20 feet. It had large claws on its feet and its wings, and its beak was long and sharp. After several days of searching, they found what was left of the creature. They saw a huge, flying, bird-like creature get hit by lightning and fall to the ground. ![]() (5) According to the narrator: The folklore of the Sioux Indian tribe tells of a party of Sioux warriors who were out hunting during a thun- derstorm. (4) The Taylor film contains a plethora of alleged accounts of encounters between humans and dinosaurs or pterosaurs, most of which have since been investigated and shown to be misrepresentations of ancient and medieval art and folklore. ![]() (2) The film and a children's book (3) based on it are widely cited as authoritative sources by anti-evolution authors. The film was first released in 1979, and Eden Publications still sells a DVD of it. The anti-evolution Thunderbird effort began with a very detailed story that was narrated in the film The Great Dinosaur Mystery, hereafter called the Taylor film after its writer and director, Paul S. (1) Those suggestions are part of an attempt to dispute the separation of humans and pterosaurs so as to cast doubt on the passage of tens of millions of years, which in turn, is meant to cast doubt on the evolution of all organisms from a common ancestor. Nevertheless, anti-evolution authors often suggest that the Thunderbird traditions of Native American peoples are based on human encounters with living pterosaurs. PTEROSAURS BECAME EXTINCT OVER 6O MILLION YEARS ago.
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