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Show "A Permanent Institute on American Indian Life" by John Collier From Indians at Work, April, 1940 The need for, and possibility of, an international clearing-house of data on Indians, has been discussed at intervals across ten years in more than one of the countries. It seems worth while, without being too confident or too specific, to formulate some of the considerations and some of the possible methodologies of the suggested clearing-house. The International Conference of American States meeting at Lima, Peru in December 1938, adopted the following resolution: "Be it resolved that the Eighth International Conference of American States endorses and recommends the establishment of an office for the continuous registration and interchange of factual data, statistical and other, and of the experimental results of systems of work with and by Indians, such data to be made available continuously to the governments and the peoples of North and South America." What should be the nature of such a permanent office? How should |
