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Chicago Native Americans Protest Against the ChiefNative Americans from Chicago, Champaign and elsewhere joined in a protest against the Chief on Thursday, January 15. The meeting was organized by Leonard Malatare and Christine Redcloud of Native American Educational Services College (NAES) in Chicago, and by the American Indian Center, Chicago. Speakers included representatives of Champaign's Progressive Resource / Action Cooperative, and Joe Podlasek, the director of the American Indian Center in Chicago. Native Americans comment on the ChiefThese excerpts are from statements by a number of Native Americans at the Chicago protest. For now, only their (audio) comments are presented here. Length: 1.5 minutes.Video from the board meeting and protestVideo from Chicago is available below. All movies are quicktime (QT) unless otherwise noted; the total running time (TRT; min:sec) appears above each. Note the quicktime movie player is free for Windows and Macintosh computers.
PicturesPlease click here for pictures from Chicago.
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