Indigenousdream, 40

Hello everyone! My name is Valeriu (you can call me Val), I am a 40 years old Romanian doctor living and working in Finland (northern European beautiful country). I am married.

I grew up in beautiful Romania, a small South-Eastern European country. My parents were both university professors. I have no brothers or sisters.

It is a great pleasure for me to be on this site, as I have always had deep respect and admiration for Native American cultures and languages.

I remember first reading about the Native American Indians when I was a kid. Back in the early 90s, I had the opportunity to visit NY and also the Tonawanda Indian Reservation. I remember how fascinated I was by all the books about Indians which I found in the Barnes and Noble bookshop in New York.

I am here to find longterm Native American friends with whom to keep in touch and even meet in real life.

I am currently studying on my own several Native American languages and it would be great to find friends from those nations (Cheyenne, Lakota, Arapaho, Blackfoot, Ojibwa, Apache, Navajo, Kiowa, Comanche, Ute, Shoshone, Hopi, Pawnee, Crow, Osage, Nakoda, Muskogee Creek, Cherokee, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Inuit, Alaskan Yupik).

As I am a person who highly appreciates and supports ethnolinguistic diversity and with a keen interest in Native American cultures and languages, I hope to be able one day to contribute to the revitalization of at least one native language.

As a culturally sensitive doctor (psychiatrist) I would be honoured to find an opportunity to visit a Native American community and learn about its traditional healing methods, also attend language courses and interact with community members.