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did exist, there has been a Chicano Movement now for quite some years, and Salvador gave us the stages of development that I would call, I think he called it something else, of the Chicano Movement and maybe we can try to analyze that and find out where Iowa is. The first stage, I'd call incubation period, he called it oppression, I'm not too sure as to the words he used, I lost my notes, but I call it the incubation period where oppression and racism exist. Step 2 The involvement of a few people, such as we have today, a few people involved in the process of making or creating change. Then the third one was excitement bandwagon, "Let's all join the bandwagon that's the right thing to do, the movement is on. Then the fourth one institutionalization. Well if you look at Iowa we can only think in terms of it being possibly in the first to the second step. The problems exist. There are communities in the state that have not even recognized the existence of these problems. The very reason is that we have been kept that way. I had a Chicano Brother in Sioux City tell me how they do this in Sioux City. He said " I have learned to live with this type of racism overtones with racism, with remarks. We just don't let them bother us they go in one ear and come out the other, there gone. We never have any problems, the Sioux City Spanish-Speaking people are very happy, very content not only Sioux City people but other people throughout the state, other Spanish-Speaking people who are very happy. But we look at income indicators or income data, we find out that the Spanish-Speaking by large is not fully participating in the system. Because if we are Iowans by birth and if

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did exist, there has been a Chicano Movement now for quite some years, and Salvador gave us the stages of development that I would call, I think he called it something else, of the Chicano Movement and maybe we can try to analyze that and find out where Iowa is. The first stage, I'd call incubation period, he called it oppression, I'm not too sure as to the words he used, I lost my notes, but I call it the incubation period where oppression and racism exist. Step 2 The involvement of a few people, such as we have today, a few people involved in the process of making or creating change. Then the third one was excitement bandwagon, "Let's all join the bandwagon that's the right thing to do, the movement is on. Then the fourth one institutionalization. Well if you look at Iowa we can only think in terms of it being possibly in the first to the second step. The problems exist. There are communities in the state that have not even recognized the existence of these problems. The very reason is that we have been kept that way. I had a Chicano Brother in Sioux City tell me how they do this in Sioux City. He said " I have learned to live with this type of racism overtones with racism, with remarks. We just don't let them bother us they go in one ear and come out the other, there gone. We never have any problems, the Sioux City Spanish-Speaking people are very happy, very content not only Sioux City people but other people throughout the state, other Spanish-Speaking people who are very happy. But we look at income indicators or income data, we find out that the Spanish-Speaking by large is not fully participating in the system. Because if we are Iowans by birth and if