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	<title>Comments on: Chief Illiniwek needs to be discontinued</title>
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		<title>by: Gibson City&#8217;s silent majority &#187; Eric Stoller&#8217;s blog</title>
		<link>http://ericstoller.com/blog/2006/09/25/chief-illiniwek-needs-to-be-discontinued/#comment-14373</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>[...] Translation: The Chief was eliminated but since this paper is apparently all about making a pro-Chief stance, the word &#8220;retired&#8221; will be used so that the rationale for the Chief&#8217;s elimination does not make it to print. Many of the town&#8217;s residents are white. The citizenry of Gibson City is 98% white and less than 1% Native American. &#8220;It&#8217;s not about an individual; it&#8217;s about what the Chief stands for,&#8221; Dickey said. &#8220;He&#8217;s not a mascot; he&#8217;s a symbol of dignity and integrity – how can anyone argue with that?&#8221; [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] Translation: The Chief was eliminated but since this paper is apparently all about making a pro-Chief stance, the word &#8220;retired&#8221; will be used so that the rationale for the Chief&#8217;s elimination does not make it to print. Many of the town&#8217;s residents are white. The citizenry of Gibson City is 98% white and less than 1% Native American. &#8220;It&#8217;s not about an individual; it&#8217;s about what the Chief stands for,&#8221; Dickey said. &#8220;He&#8217;s not a mascot; he&#8217;s a symbol of dignity and integrity – how can anyone argue with that?&#8221; [&#8230;]
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		<title>by: Chief Illiniwek Will No Longer Perform &#187; Eric Stoller&#8217;s blog</title>
		<link>http://ericstoller.com/blog/2006/09/25/chief-illiniwek-needs-to-be-discontinued/#comment-4620</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://ericstoller.com/blog/2006/09/25/chief-illiniwek-needs-to-be-discontinued/#comment-4620</guid>
					<description>[...] UIUC has decided to discontinue Chief Illiniwek&#8230;. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] UIUC has decided to discontinue Chief Illiniwek&#8230;. [&#8230;]
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		<title>by: Balertwine</title>
		<link>http://ericstoller.com/blog/2006/09/25/chief-illiniwek-needs-to-be-discontinued/#comment-4613</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://ericstoller.com/blog/2006/09/25/chief-illiniwek-needs-to-be-discontinued/#comment-4613</guid>
					<description>Few people know this, but I represent the hunter-gatherers of the world.

Our happy hunting grounds have disappeared everywhere from Lapland to
New Guinea to the greater Mississippi River Basin. The only reason you cry
about the disappearing Rain Forest is because you sit where my forest once was.

Some blame this usurpation of cultures on the cultivation of wheat and the
domestication of the cow; others lay blame squarely in the hands of the
Reagan/Bush trickle-down economic theorists. I prefer to simply
blame you.

I should spear every one of you smartypants urban technologists,
sitting there at play at your computers, where my people once felled
the wooly mammoth and the mighty buffalo.

The Irish, the Germans, the Italians, the Slavs, none of them should have
wandered north from Mesopotamia, only to befoul every shore they
set foot upon. Birthplace of Civilization my ass! We the people of the earth,
content to track the wild elk and take only what we need, who rarely
engaged in cannibalism, we were the meek even before they had a
word for meek.

We refused to develop an alphabet not because we were stupid,
but because we knew what it would lead to.

First you idiots started planting seeds. One thing led to another, and
your populations grew, as you became fat and lazy, no longer lean
from the hunt. Then you started building permanent structures, and
forgot all about the need to sleep in trees to avoid the predators at
night. Then you built factories and paved our trails with asphalt, and
dirtied the air like a thousand exploding volcanoes every day.

Please block yourselves from each other's mailing lists, open that
opening in the wall you call "window," and throw your computer out.
Return to the land, kill an antelope, rip its flesh from the bone, and
pencil deep intellectual thoughts on the ceilings of your caves with a
charred stick.

Yes, I know, some of you vegetarians will wither and starve, refusing to eat
the gizzards offered you, but this is our law -- Nature's law of
natural selection, and only the brave will survive. This is
why they call us Braves. Why they call others of us Eskimos, 
Aborigines, Laplanders, and Zulus, we don't know, and
we don't care. We just know that with proper treatment, we can
shrink your heads down for use as cute decorations on our coffee tables.

Hunters and gatherers of the world, unite!&lt;a href="http://myspace.com/balertwine"&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Few people know this, but I represent the hunter-gatherers of the world.</p>
<p>Our happy hunting grounds have disappeared everywhere from Lapland to<br />
New Guinea to the greater Mississippi River Basin. The only reason you cry<br />
about the disappearing Rain Forest is because you sit where my forest once was.</p>
<p>Some blame this usurpation of cultures on the cultivation of wheat and the<br />
domestication of the cow; others lay blame squarely in the hands of the<br />
Reagan/Bush trickle-down economic theorists. I prefer to simply<br />
blame you.</p>
<p>I should spear every one of you smartypants urban technologists,<br />
sitting there at play at your computers, where my people once felled<br />
the wooly mammoth and the mighty buffalo.</p>
<p>The Irish, the Germans, the Italians, the Slavs, none of them should have<br />
wandered north from Mesopotamia, only to befoul every shore they<br />
set foot upon. Birthplace of Civilization my ass! We the people of the earth,<br />
content to track the wild elk and take only what we need, who rarely<br />
engaged in cannibalism, we were the meek even before they had a<br />
word for meek.</p>
<p>We refused to develop an alphabet not because we were stupid,<br />
but because we knew what it would lead to.</p>
<p>First you idiots started planting seeds. One thing led to another, and<br />
your populations grew, as you became fat and lazy, no longer lean<br />
from the hunt. Then you started building permanent structures, and<br />
forgot all about the need to sleep in trees to avoid the predators at<br />
night. Then you built factories and paved our trails with asphalt, and<br />
dirtied the air like a thousand exploding volcanoes every day.</p>
<p>Please block yourselves from each other&#8217;s mailing lists, open that<br />
opening in the wall you call &#8220;window,&#8221; and throw your computer out.<br />
Return to the land, kill an antelope, rip its flesh from the bone, and<br />
pencil deep intellectual thoughts on the ceilings of your caves with a<br />
charred stick.</p>
<p>Yes, I know, some of you vegetarians will wither and starve, refusing to eat<br />
the gizzards offered you, but this is our law &#8212; Nature&#8217;s law of<br />
natural selection, and only the brave will survive. This is<br />
why they call us Braves. Why they call others of us Eskimos,<br />
Aborigines, Laplanders, and Zulus, we don&#8217;t know, and<br />
we don&#8217;t care. We just know that with proper treatment, we can<br />
shrink your heads down for use as cute decorations on our coffee tables.</p>
<p>Hunters and gatherers of the world, unite!<a href="http://myspace.com/balertwine"></a>
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		<title>by: Oglala Sioux asks for regalia &#187; Eric Stoller&#8217;s blog</title>
		<link>http://ericstoller.com/blog/2006/09/25/chief-illiniwek-needs-to-be-discontinued/#comment-3772</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://ericstoller.com/blog/2006/09/25/chief-illiniwek-needs-to-be-discontinued/#comment-3772</guid>
					<description>[...] The Oglala Sioux Tribe has asked the University of Illinois and the University of Illinois Board of Trustees to return the Lakota regalia that is currently being worn by UIUC&#8217;s &#8220;Chief Illiniwek.&#8221; [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] The Oglala Sioux Tribe has asked the University of Illinois and the University of Illinois Board of Trustees to return the Lakota regalia that is currently being worn by UIUC&#8217;s &#8220;Chief Illiniwek.&#8221; [&#8230;]
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		<title>by: G-Dub</title>
		<link>http://ericstoller.com/blog/2006/09/25/chief-illiniwek-needs-to-be-discontinued/#comment-3715</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://ericstoller.com/blog/2006/09/25/chief-illiniwek-needs-to-be-discontinued/#comment-3715</guid>
					<description>The University of Illinois should stop using Chief Illiniwek.  I suggest they change their name to the Pioneers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The University of Illinois should stop using Chief Illiniwek.  I suggest they change their name to the Pioneers.
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