Part I: Decolonial Openings: Fashioning Narratives and Identities against/after Chief Illiniwek. Thinking against/after Chief Illiniwek / C. Richard King ; Explaining the NCAA Decision, August 9, 2005 / Carol Spindel ; Mourning the mascot's demise: on prehistoric origins and modern aftermath / Synthia Sydnor ; ''Leutwiler's Indian'': creating the ''Chief'' tradition at the University of Illinois / Jennifer Guiliano ; Why the NCAA was right / Stephen J. Kaufman ; Inventing tradition: the Garippo Report and the paraphernalia of jurisprudence / Ray Gamache ; Death and resurrection of Chief Illiniwek (1926-2007) / David Prochaska ; Staging an intervention in a virtual dystopia: the online fallout of the race, power and privilege forum and the removal of ''Chief Illiniwek'' / Cassidy C Browning ; The university of Chief Illiniwek? consuming ''indianness'' in the shadows of memorial stadium / Michael D. Giardina ; (Not) Writing about the chief / David Roediger ; On deaf ears: an activist's comments to the university's trustees / Stephen J. Kaufman -- Part II: New Interpretative Works. "Born to be wild" or a "tale of two theories": a performance of black womanhood in the United States / Amira Millicent Davis ; Romance, nostalgia, and danger: disposing of the white male guide / Richard J. Doherty ; "And her death filled her with great plentitude": whiteness, erasure, and racialized schooling / Myra Margolin ; Stepping out, speaking up: resisting sexual violence through narratives / Koeli Moitra Goel ; The chargeling / Corey Holding ; Playing with oil: putting performativity at the center of oil civilization / Daniel Lord ; Lifelong education and democratic citizenship / John M. Johnson.