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.

What I want to say is the issue of this Chief is this, it's not an issue of political correctness, it's racism is what it is. So subtle, so subtle people are blinded from hearing the truth. The truth comes down the street and everybody wants to run. Nobody wants to hear it. The issue is this is it.

On a Comanche Indian reservation, children were being inoculated by the FDA with experimental drugs and they were told to the parents, don't worry about it, we are just going to see what this drug does. The parents were not aware what is going on. That diminished Indian human life. And that has -- I grew up in a time in this country in this century that I saw that as a youth, as a young boy. And as times changed, we have to change, so does the University and its perspectives.

If is money, you have to look at these alumni people who may have intended to have the Chief as an honorable thing in the beginning, but now it is he is skewed, just like our government, the founding fathers of this government had a great idea. The country is still standing, but now things are going awry to some degree. We question our government. So we question the Chief, the same thing. So we look at this and we say to ourselves what is this?

I saw this person five years ago dancing, that was not a dance. It was very offensive. As a Native person I danced, but I did not dance a dance that I would like to dance because I can no longer physically do that.

In order for me to do what I have to do as a Native person, I have to attain rights to do that when this so-called Chief can do this blatantly, that is subtle racism without consideration to the people who it affects.

Napoleon was right, the victor gets to write history. This is what is perpetuated. The Chief perpetuates the domination of this functional European process. It is not the way Native men are taking care of their families and their children and their wives. This is not a Chief. The Chief is a father, he is a son, he is a brother, he is an uncle. He is a caretaker, he is a giver.

This Chief is nothing other than a clown. And clowns are respected in Native communities because they are taught to be clowns. They are supposed to take what is serious in our lives and give people a different perspective to really look at what they are seeing or how they are acting. This clown does not do that either.

So in closing, I say this: Your alumni, the old alumni who like to keep the chief, they are going to die soon, just like me and you. Our time is limited. You have to look forward to new money coming in. When my son finishes his tour with the United States Marine Corps, he wants to go to the University. I have to tell him, you have to think about this one and really consider it. You will lose money in the future. If money is the issue. Thank you for your time.

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