UIUC Mascot Resources

• UIUC Native American House statement on the mascot: http://www.ais.illinois.edu/mascot/
• UIUC's Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations (OIIR) mascot statement pdf file
• Peoria Tribe of Oklahoma http://www.peoriatribe.com/
• National Coalition on Racism in Sports & Media http://www.aimovement.org/ncrsm/
• Retire the Chief Web site http://www.retirethechief.org/
• Retire the Chief Archives: http://www.retirethechief.org/archives.html
• In Whose Honor http://www.inwhosehonor.com/
• Charlene Teters' Web page http://www.charleneteters.com/Welcome.html
• Professor Joe Gone's article "Chief illiniwek: Dignified or Damaging" pdf file
  
• December 15, 2006 "Congressional Field Hearing" examining Tim Johnson's and House Speaker Dennis Hastert's “Protection of University Governance Act of 2006” (HR 5289) http://www.iresist.org/NCAA_hearing.html
• Racism, Power and Privilege at UIUC forum http://www.iresist.org/stop/
• Wikipedia - Chief Illiniwek entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Illiniwek
• RESOLUTION OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE DEMANDING RETURN OF LAKOTA REGALIA USED IN PERFORMANCE OF “CHIEF ILLINIWEK,” AND IN SUPPORT OF REQUEST BY PEORIA TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA THAT THE USE OF THE MASCOT CEASE (January 17, 2007) http://www.iresist.org/oglala_press_conference.html
• Alliance Against Racial Mascots http://www.allarm.org/
• Eric Stoller Blog on UIUC Mascot http://ericstoller.com/blog/tag/uiuc
  
  

  Articles and Books (selected)

  (from http://www.ais.illinois.edu/mascot/resources/)

   

  Baca, Lawrence. (2004). "Native Images in Schools and the Racially Hostile Environment." Journal of Sport & Social Issues 28(1):71-78.

  Bataille, Gretchen M. (2001). Native American Representations: First Encounters, Distorted Images, and Literary Appropriations. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

  Berkhofer, Robert F. (1978). The White Man's Indian: Images of the American Indian, from Columbus to the Present. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

  Black, Jason Edward. (2002). "The Mascotting of Native America: Construction, Commodity, and Assimilation." American Indian Quarterly 26(4):605-622.

  Briggs, Kara, and Dan Lewerenz. (2003). "Reading Red Report 2003: A Call for the News Media to Recognize Racism in Sports Team Nicknames and Mascots." 31 May 2007.

  Clark, David Anthony Tyeeme. (2005). "Wa a o, wa ba ski na me ska ta! 'Indian' Mascots and the Pathology of Anti-Indigenous Racism." In In the Game: Race, Identity, and Sports in the Twentieth Century, edited by A. Bass, 137-166. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

  Deloria, Philip J. (1999). Playing Indian. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

   --. (2004) Indians in Unexpected Places. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.

  Farnell, Brenda. (2004). "The Fancy Dance of Racializing Discourse." Journal of Sport & Social Issues 28(1):30-55.

  Gone, Joseph P. (1995). "Chief Illiniwek: Dignified or Damaging?" 31 May 2007. <http://www.inwhosehonor.com/documents/GONE.HTML>

  Huhndorf, Shari. (2001). Going Native. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

  King, C. Richard. (1998). "Spectacles, Sports, and Stereotypes: Dis/Playing Chief Illiniwek." In Colonial Discourses, Collective Memories, and the Exhibition of Native American Cultures and Histories in the Contemporary United States, 41-58. New York: Garland.

  King, C. Richard, and Charles Fruehling Springwood, eds. (2001). Team Spirits: The Native American Mascots Controversy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska.

  Mihesuah, Devon A. (1996). American Indians: Stereotypes and Realities. Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press, Inc.

  Pewewardy, Cornell D. (1991). "Native American Mascots and Imagery: The Struggle of Unlearning Indian Stereotypes." Journal of Navaho Education 9(1):19-23.

  ---. (1999). "From La Belle Sauvage to the Nobel Savage: The Deculturalization of Indian Mascots in American Culture." Multicultural Education 6:6-11.

  ---. "Why Educators Can't Ignore Indian Mascots." 31 May 2007. <http://www.aics.org/mascot/cornel.html>.

  Slapin, Beverly, and Doris Seale, eds. (1992). Through Indian Eyes: the Native Experience in Books for Children. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers.

  Spindel, Carol. (2000). Dancing at Halftime: Sports and the Controversy over American Indian Mascots. New York: New York University Press.

  Strong, Pauline Turner. (2004). "The Mascot Slot: Cultural Citizenship, Political Correctness, and Pseudo-Indian Sports Symbols." Journal of Sport & Social Issues 28(1):79-87.

  
  
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