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Chicano/Latino Native American Cultural Center 25th anniversary celebration, December 14, 1996
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Indian dances and many more that created a very special bond between us that, to this day. I do not fully comprehend. I remember the students from Texas, Colorado, California, New York and Alaska who all remarked that they all had to journey to Iowa to learn about their cultures through the first Chicano and Indian courses which were taught at the center. I am reminded of Joy Harjo, well known American Indian writer and Sandra Cisneros, well know Chicana writer, who graduated from the UI. Both spent hours spinning their tales at the center and later transformed these tales into poems and stories about their lives, our lives. Joy last year in a conversation with me, was relating how the center as so important to her own development as a writer, which reminded me of Juan Felipe Herrera ho graduated from the Writers Workshop in 1990 and reported that coming from LA was difficult because he had to learn to write without the noise of the cities, but once he did, it took his writing to a new level which he would not have enjoyed had he stayed in California. I am reminded of the many dinners that filled the center with aromas from our different backgrounds and how it was here that many of us learned how to cook our foods and loved cooking them because there was a new level of appreciation for it here. I am reminded of the many conversations that took place here seven days a week 24 hours a day, about our academic concerns bilingual 3
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Indian dances and many more that created a very special bond between us that, to this day. I do not fully comprehend. I remember the students from Texas, Colorado, California, New York and Alaska who all remarked that they all had to journey to Iowa to learn about their cultures through the first Chicano and Indian courses which were taught at the center. I am reminded of Joy Harjo, well known American Indian writer and Sandra Cisneros, well know Chicana writer, who graduated from the UI. Both spent hours spinning their tales at the center and later transformed these tales into poems and stories about their lives, our lives. Joy last year in a conversation with me, was relating how the center as so important to her own development as a writer, which reminded me of Juan Felipe Herrera ho graduated from the Writers Workshop in 1990 and reported that coming from LA was difficult because he had to learn to write without the noise of the cities, but once he did, it took his writing to a new level which he would not have enjoyed had he stayed in California. I am reminded of the many dinners that filled the center with aromas from our different backgrounds and how it was here that many of us learned how to cook our foods and loved cooking them because there was a new level of appreciation for it here. I am reminded of the many conversations that took place here seven days a week 24 hours a day, about our academic concerns bilingual 3
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