The following is the transcript of a Foellinger balcony narrative from April 14, 2000. It is an unedited excerpt from the original Chief dialogue document.

Our values and beliefs have taken center stage for your ridicule, your flagrant remarks and your total lack of regard for our ways of life as exemplified by your mascot. We respect our elders and honor their place in our lives, the value of life and cherish it in all forms. You will find very few Native Americans behind bars. We understand the importance of what we do and the profound importance it will have on our children and our children's children.

Most people today value only one life form, theirs, and they will walk over anyone who gets in the way to their goal.

That begs the question, who is the real primitive person, the savage? When you come to this country with no knowledge of the terrain, who helped you back on your feet. Without us you would never have made it. This is the things you give us. We are human beings who demand respect and not your current form of half-time entertainment.

Carlos Cortez. Having usurped the land of the original inhabitants, along with 300 years of genocide, you insult the memory of our elders by making mascots of them. Even Hitler did not do that, congratulations. Carlos Cortez, Coyote's Song.

And Robert Waupauhee. Your people constantly use the phrase, we are doing this to honor you. If that is a true statement, then we ask you, honor our wish and please stop. Our community art center will publicize the struggle to help bring this institution of higher learning to a higher standard of human decency, one that rises above racism. And anybody who has interest can check out our web site at art-teez.org. We do the art of the tee shirt. You can see us on the web. Thank you.

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