American Indians in the United States

Complementing our main course, we are taking 2 different workshops everyday. In this workshop we had a speech by a member of an American tribe, Dr. Jonathan Hook who told us about American-Indian pueblos in history.

Dr. Hook said some important tribes in American history were: Cherokees, Pow Wow, Apache, Iroquois, Sioux, Navajo, among others. He, as a member of one of this communities, told us about the importance of nature for the tribes, and the efforts they have made to take care of it.

Something remarkable about this lecture, is the meaning some American tribes gave to the word 'Indios'. Opposite to what most people would believe, the word 'Indios' is non-offensive, that is to say, for them, this word is "in -dios": God's people.