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Chicano/Latino Native American Cultural Center 25th anniversary celebration, December 14, 1996
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Organization, American Indian Law School Association, Los Curanderos, Sigma Gamma Delata, which came into existence to meet the changing needs of students. I am reminded of Tony Zavala, Chicago Chicano Activist and Ruth Pushetoneua, Mesquakie Indian, who shared with me their vision to create a space for us as indigenous people to survive and grow at the University of Iowa. Clearly, I found myself moving back though my life and was reminded in a very powerful way, that so much of who I am today, from the career I have, to the values and philosophies that frame my understanding of the world and the action I take in it, come out of my experience as a student here and in the role I was fortunate to have in making this center a reality 25 years ago. What became crystalline to me was the realization that I would be coming back here today, not as a high level administrator but as a student. I saw that the cycle had come full circle, and that like a spiral, our lives move through the same spaces and yet we are not in quite the same place. It is from the understand that I will share where this journey has taken me. And I am back, I am here, at the place where so much happened to me, around me. Where my life's work began, And yes, it is the same place - and it is a different place. 5
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Organization, American Indian Law School Association, Los Curanderos, Sigma Gamma Delata, which came into existence to meet the changing needs of students. I am reminded of Tony Zavala, Chicago Chicano Activist and Ruth Pushetoneua, Mesquakie Indian, who shared with me their vision to create a space for us as indigenous people to survive and grow at the University of Iowa. Clearly, I found myself moving back though my life and was reminded in a very powerful way, that so much of who I am today, from the career I have, to the values and philosophies that frame my understanding of the world and the action I take in it, come out of my experience as a student here and in the role I was fortunate to have in making this center a reality 25 years ago. What became crystalline to me was the realization that I would be coming back here today, not as a high level administrator but as a student. I saw that the cycle had come full circle, and that like a spiral, our lives move through the same spaces and yet we are not in quite the same place. It is from the understand that I will share where this journey has taken me. And I am back, I am here, at the place where so much happened to me, around me. Where my life's work began, And yes, it is the same place - and it is a different place. 5
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