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<blockquote data-quote="Ransom Stoddard" data-source="post: 1935135" data-attributes="member: 10336"><p>You can doubt that only one has ever complained, but you'd be wrong. Those schools that still use Native imagery and likenesses have legal and financial agreements with their associated tribes (FSU being the obvious example). Illinois has never had that.</p><p></p><p>To compound that issue, the most recent regalia used for Chief Illiniwek was purchased from the Oglala Sioux tribe, which has no relationship at all to any of the members of the Illini Confederation (Peoria, Cahokia, Kaskaski, Michigamea, and Tamaroa) or their antecedents, nor even with the Kickapoo or other tribal groups local to Illinois.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ransom Stoddard, post: 1935135, member: 10336"] You can doubt that only one has ever complained, but you'd be wrong. Those schools that still use Native imagery and likenesses have legal and financial agreements with their associated tribes (FSU being the obvious example). Illinois has never had that. To compound that issue, the most recent regalia used for Chief Illiniwek was purchased from the Oglala Sioux tribe, which has no relationship at all to any of the members of the Illini Confederation (Peoria, Cahokia, Kaskaski, Michigamea, and Tamaroa) or their antecedents, nor even with the Kickapoo or other tribal groups local to Illinois. [/QUOTE]
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