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movement that is, then we have learned fro things that Salvador noted for us to have learned. Yo soy Chicano, Chicano implying a very deep interpretation, I will determine my growth. I must participate in decision making and group action. Well Yo soy Chicano is not expressed by most of our Spanish-Speaking Iowans. I will determine my growth is not expressed by most of our Spanish-Speaking Iowans. Our growth is largely determined by the government, by other people not we the people, well we are not considered as people as Salvador stated. We don't have anything to say as to how far we are going. We must start participating in decision making in the State of Iowa, we don't have anybody. Infact our decision makers don't even know we exist. I had a Senator tell me not to long ago, or ask me if the Spanish-Speaking population lived in fact in Fort Madison alone, because he thought that the Spanish Speaking population lived in Fort Madison, he didn't have any idea of the Spanish-Speaking people living anywhere else. I asked him how long he had been a Senator. He had been a Senator 4 terms, 2 or 3 terms a couple as a representative and all this time he had been our representative, but that's how aware he was. I've had administration tell me that they didn't know that there are Spanish-Speaking people in Iowa, such as the one at Drake University. Drake University had 4 Teacher Corps programs that they didn't include a single Spanish-Speaking Iowan in those programs. Why, because they thought all the Spanish-Speaking people lived in Des Moines. And then we have group actions. Group actions means that we are going to have to get involved as a group to get something accomplished, and I don't mean a large group. But only the people that are

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movement that is, then we have learned fro things that Salvador noted for us to have learned. Yo soy Chicano, Chicano implying a very deep interpretation, I will determine my growth. I must participate in decision making and group action. Well Yo soy Chicano is not expressed by most of our Spanish-Speaking Iowans. I will determine my growth is not expressed by most of our Spanish-Speaking Iowans. Our growth is largely determined by the government, by other people not we the people, well we are not considered as people as Salvador stated. We don't have anything to say as to how far we are going. We must start participating in decision making in the State of Iowa, we don't have anybody. Infact our decision makers don't even know we exist. I had a Senator tell me not to long ago, or ask me if the Spanish-Speaking population lived in fact in Fort Madison alone, because he thought that the Spanish Speaking population lived in Fort Madison, he didn't have any idea of the Spanish-Speaking people living anywhere else. I asked him how long he had been a Senator. He had been a Senator 4 terms, 2 or 3 terms a couple as a representative and all this time he had been our representative, but that's how aware he was. I've had administration tell me that they didn't know that there are Spanish-Speaking people in Iowa, such as the one at Drake University. Drake University had 4 Teacher Corps programs that they didn't include a single Spanish-Speaking Iowan in those programs. Why, because they thought all the Spanish-Speaking people lived in Des Moines. And then we have group actions. Group actions means that we are going to have to get involved as a group to get something accomplished, and I don't mean a large group. But only the people that are