South Dakota State University is investigating an anti-Indian message that was left on the stall of a bathroom at a student dorm.

The message referred to Indian students with a racial epithet and told them to "go back to the rez." It listed two dorm room numbers, at least one of which is occupied by Indian students.

Ernest Weston Jr., a student who is a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, took a photo of the racist graffiti and shared it with his uncle. Wayne Weston posted it Facebook but it was subsequently removed by the site.

"I guess the picture I posted that my nephew took was too offensive and was removed my fb administrators. My intention was to bring awareness of what we as native people face on a daily basis and expose the venomous hatred that exists, this is the difficulty we face living in a land we called home for thousands of years," Wayne Weston said in a post yesterday.

About 210 Native Americans attend classes at the Brookings campus, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader reported. The campus has more than 12,500 students.

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