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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2074541, member: 289"]
I remember a meeting at work one day where we listened to a speaker tell how to deal sensitively with Native Americans. I asked what word we should use to describe them. I'd looked up the meaning and, basically, "native" means you were born in a place. "Indigenous" means you are from a place: you might not have been born there but you grew up there and who you are is heavily influenced by the place. "Aboriginal" means that your people were the first people in that place. He said it didn't matter: they were interchangeable. I suggested it did. In Australia the term "aborigine" has became a pejorative term due to the attitudes of others but that's the right term. I told the speaker I am native to the Syracuse area and indigenous to it but that i am not aboriginal.

I am  Syracuse fan because I am native and indigenous to the Syracuse area and any team that says "Syracuse"on their jersey, (or at elat their letterhead), is our team, representing us. SU football and basketball are especially important because they put us on the map and make us nationally relevant, (or give us a negative image if they are bad). College sports are big in this country because they appeal to markets too small for pro sports. pro sports fans come from places already on the map. they want their teams to live up to the image of the community it and they already have. College fans root for their team to make them know. I call it "existential rooting": we win therefore we are. That's what SU football and basketball can do: tell the world we exist and make us feel important.
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