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"Chief Illiniwek" (UoI) may have started as a sincere attempt to honour Native Americans and educate students, but had become a source of contention between Native American community/students and the university's sports fans, alumni and administration. What had once been an attempt at intercultural exchange has lately felt like mockery when the "honoured" ask, plead, then demand an end.

The Chief is history, at the University of Illinois.

Dislodging Chief Wahoo could be a little harder. Pic clicks to article.
"Symbolic Racism: Chief Wahoo and the Cleveland Indians"
by James V. Fenelon, Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, John Carroll University (1997)

Excerpts:

" 1915 - This first Wahoo is closer to the "Indian" on a buffalohead nickel and is less stereotypical and more humanlike.
In 1928,this brightly colored head appeared on the team uniforms. It marked a first step toward cartoon stylization.
In 1947, the team unveiled this blatantly demeaning face, the first to be called "chief wahoo". The large hooked nose, toothy grin, gleaming eyes and exaggerated cheekbones,add up to a ridiculous, ugly image. "

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Why did the 1960's and the "Baby-Boomers" fail to make a better world?

Read this article, at Strike The Root.

From the article:

"War (in Korea , Vietnam , Grenada , Panama , the Balkans, Afghanistan , Iraq , etc.)
Alleged reason: Compassion, expressed by liberating foreigners from tyrants, protecting Americans from supposed danger, and spreading American-style democracy.
Actual results include death for millions, including over 655,000 Iraqi civilians since the 2003 invasion; the moral and financial bankrupting of America; over 700 US military bases on foreign soil (imagine the annual expense for a single such base); a military budget larger than the next 20 biggest military spenders combined; extremely widespread emotional damage among the civilian and military survivors of war and their children; increasing disrespect and outright hatred for America by people around the globe. "

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Broken Vulture Art papier-mache, in the Bingorage studio. Click to enlarge.












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Working on a new necklace, with coral-stitched segments. Juxtaposed different bead strands, to get a feel for what the finished product might look like. Comments? Suggestions? Favourites?
Pics click to enlarge.


Coral-stitch segments, with shell composition.

"Goldstone"


Opaque scarlet glass


Rose Quartz


transparent blue glass chips


Turquoise


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Random stuff:

Aboriginal publisher, Theytus Books is accepting submissions, but check out their guidelines (That means: YOU; don't even think of shovelling five pounds of scribbled-on napkins, cardboard and birchbark into a shoebox and send it COD).

The website of Roy Boney, Cherokee illustrator.

En'owkwin Centre

" En'owkin provides students with a strong cultural and academic foundation for success in further post-secondary studies. Many former En'owkin students have gone on to become nationally and internationally known writers, artists and educators, have completed graduate degrees, are currently in degree programs, and are leaders in their communities. "

Cool story from regular contributor to Indian Country Today website, Richard Wagamese

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