The following transcript is from the 4/14/00 Chief Illiniwek dialogue "intake session". It is an unedited excerpt from the original U.I. document.

MR. BRUCE TWO EAGLES: Good afternoon, Your Honor, and Board. My name is Bruce Two Eagles. And the importance of this coming here, I have cancer of the spine. And I drove eleven and a half hours to be here for four minutes. That's how important this is.

When I was in the 7th grade, I was called into school, I am an urban Indian, I was brought up off the reservation. And I was called into the school guidance with my mother. And the guidance counselor told my mother, Bruce is very intelligent for an Indian. He should do well in the trades.

About 25 years prior to that is when the Chief was picked as the mascot here. And I am sure cultural sensitivity was not part of the picking of the Chief. I talk to you today about moral decline of your school, the morality, the things that you have done in the last year and a half to keep your Chief. One of those being a letter writing campaign offering the people on the Lac Courte reservation a thousand dollars for the best leather depicting their enthusiasm about the Chief. They threw you off the reservation.

You last year you sent students to the Peoria tribe to get their input. And they lied to the tribal council and were asked to leave the meeting. That's what caused the Peoria tribe to write the resolution you got this morning, saying remove the Chief. He's offensive. Your offering of a bounty to the Eastern Band Cherokee graduate students, high school students to come to the University of Illinois because they have the contracts to supply tomahawks and headdresses to the Atlanta Braves, they are trained mascots. You have gone there and offered a bounty for their students. Where is your moral decline? It's right here. And it's live and in color and it's in front of you.

I can tell you about how dishonored I am, but you have heard it from a thousand people. How many minority people have to tell you they are offended before you are going to say this is racism? This is the high school -- or the school yard bully that we are dealing with. You have got a little power, you have got the control, and it doesn't matter what the minority thinks. You are the powerful majority.

You want entertainment at half-time? Have your good alums go out at half-time and wave their check books in the air, that's what you are interested in is the money. You want entertainment with your mascot? Get a puppy. You want political correctness? Yes, you do. Because you are white. You live in my shoes, you live in a minority's shoes and there is no such thing as too much political correctness. We ask to be human beings.

Don't parade my spirituality at on your campuses. In front of you, I handed out symbols of racism today. You have a copy of it in front of you. Also you have a report by Doctor Jace Weaver which is now accepted by the US Department of Justice of what constitute religious items that are Native American in the school system. Read it. It's nine pages. Thank you.

TRUSTEE SCHMIDT: If someone would tell Mr. Two Eagles that he did not leave nine pages. He left, I mean if there are more, we would like to have them.

MR. TWO EAGLES: The web site is on there. It's obtainable on our web site. Also, you can contact Lawrence Parker at US government.Org.

MODERATOR GARIPPO: But it's on the web site? Thank you very much.

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