Dakota in Spain

This blog is designed to allow English life-long learners learn about Native/American Indian Peoples (peoples = pueblos) because these people have been wiped out of our lives and their image has been distorted. They have been subjected to nonstop aggression, and genocide attempts, and we should try to stop this using the means we have at hand. One is information and communication. Learning about real things happening in our world, good and bad, so that we can enjoy the good ones and try to change the bad ones.
I am not a Dakota Indian. Years ago I started using this nick on the Internet because I loved the sound of the word. In 2007 I started reading works by American and Native Indians, and listening to different works in audiovisual format. As I read, I was outraged, of course, because injustice and abuse are outrageous. I also felt close, close to those analyses I was reading, because I belong to a social group who has been historically and systematically abused and ignored as human beings, which is women, the second-rate human being of all times. Also, as a pacifist and a person who believes in the use of intelligence to solve problems, I have been refused my history, the history and herstory of all the struggle for justice that took place without the use of violence. I have been extremely lucky, because my life hasn’t developed in this traditional context of abuse. This luck hasn’t made me blind and it hasn’t made me change my value-system either. Power does seem to corrupt, I suppose, but I know happiness doesn’t. Enough on this. Here is a little blog on what I’m and I’ll be learning about Indians. Hope it helps in some way.
I earn a living as a teacher of English in state-run language schools in Spain but I develop and share non-profit educational projects in my free time and using my own resources.
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