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<blockquote data-quote="BZuppke" data-source="post: 1326538" data-attributes="member: 12358"><p>As an ardent chief supporter and admirer/student of Native American culture and history, it saddens me that we're losing our history and traditions. That being said, we're swimming against the cultural tide in this country to fight over this and all the negative media that would ensue. We have to draw a hard line at Fighting Illini and it will be difficult. Despite the fairly recent discovery that the name derives from WWI Illini, it is in fact the case that the nickname always derived from Native American culture and people thought of it that way. The chief was not developed in a vacuum. All of our music which predates WWI includes faux Native American words etc. Again I don't think too many native Americans are emotionally scarred by 'oskee Wow Wow' or 'cha he cha ha' but it will be challenged eventually. As an aside, the NCAA are a bunch of hypocrites. If it is offensive, it is offensive, even if you pay the tribe a lot of money.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BZuppke, post: 1326538, member: 12358"] As an ardent chief supporter and admirer/student of Native American culture and history, it saddens me that we're losing our history and traditions. That being said, we're swimming against the cultural tide in this country to fight over this and all the negative media that would ensue. We have to draw a hard line at Fighting Illini and it will be difficult. Despite the fairly recent discovery that the name derives from WWI Illini, it is in fact the case that the nickname always derived from Native American culture and people thought of it that way. The chief was not developed in a vacuum. All of our music which predates WWI includes faux Native American words etc. Again I don't think too many native Americans are emotionally scarred by 'oskee Wow Wow' or 'cha he cha ha' but it will be challenged eventually. As an aside, the NCAA are a bunch of hypocrites. If it is offensive, it is offensive, even if you pay the tribe a lot of money. [/QUOTE]
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