Wednesday, July 9, 2008 East Central Illinois

Chief regalia's fate far from resolved

By Christine Des Garennes
Thursday, August 23, 2007 2:32 PM CDT

A pair of leggings. Gloves. And a tunic.

The fate of those items, made by Oglala Sioux elder Frank Fools Crow for the University of Illinois Chief Illiniwek costume in the early 1980s – and still in UI possession – remains up in the air, months after the university decided to retire the Chief.

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