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Chicano/Latino Native American Cultural Center 25th anniversary celebration, December 14, 1996
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This conference addressed everything from the farm workers movement to the issue of the urban plight of Chicanos and our relationship to Indian people. The American Indian conference was also a powerful event that served to define the importance of Indian sovereignty at Iowa.Such gatherings provided, and will continue to provide us, with important models for change as well as to instruct us in fundamental ways about the importance of community. Many students through the years have continued this process. Through the years we have all learned many, many important lessons through witnessing and participating in the work of building and moving the center forward while simultaneously solidifying and underscoring the importance of the presence of Latino and Indian voices on our campus. Activists, writers and speakers from across disciplines and communities like Cesar Chavez, Russell Means, Ray Youngbear, Norma Cantu, Winnona la Duke, Tomas Rivera, Dolores Huerta and many others provided us with a sense of what is possible and captured our imaginations and nurtured the belief in each one of us that we could make a difference. This too is your legacy, a legacy which you will continue to add to. And while the the activism of the 70s and early 80s is behind us, students continue to find their way here for many of the same reasons that my generation did; isolation a need for a sense of community, a need for a safe space and concern and social issues. 8
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This conference addressed everything from the farm workers movement to the issue of the urban plight of Chicanos and our relationship to Indian people. The American Indian conference was also a powerful event that served to define the importance of Indian sovereignty at Iowa.Such gatherings provided, and will continue to provide us, with important models for change as well as to instruct us in fundamental ways about the importance of community. Many students through the years have continued this process. Through the years we have all learned many, many important lessons through witnessing and participating in the work of building and moving the center forward while simultaneously solidifying and underscoring the importance of the presence of Latino and Indian voices on our campus. Activists, writers and speakers from across disciplines and communities like Cesar Chavez, Russell Means, Ray Youngbear, Norma Cantu, Winnona la Duke, Tomas Rivera, Dolores Huerta and many others provided us with a sense of what is possible and captured our imaginations and nurtured the belief in each one of us that we could make a difference. This too is your legacy, a legacy which you will continue to add to. And while the the activism of the 70s and early 80s is behind us, students continue to find their way here for many of the same reasons that my generation did; isolation a need for a sense of community, a need for a safe space and concern and social issues. 8
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