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Show THE CONCEPT OF INDIGENTS MO AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDIANIST MOVEMENTS IN THE AMERICAS 1941 Editorial. America Indigena, Vol. No. 1 (October, 1941), Mexico, D.F., pp. 5-6. The purpose sought by the Inter-American Indian Institute in creating the magazine America Indigena. Written in Spanish and English. Alba, Pedrc de. "Marti, Amigo Del Indio," America Indigena, Vol. 1 No. 11 (October, 1941), Mexico, D.F., pp. 39-41. English Summary: Marti had the blood of a criollo, the soul of a mestizo, and the sensitiveness of an Indian. He concerned himself with all the problems of the Americas; the more a people was forgotten, the more he became inspired to help them. He knew that in the mountains, in the valleys, and along the river banks of America there were millions of human beings abandoned, submerged, outside the fringe of social reform, forgotten in plans for improvement-almost beyond hope of basic advancement, and that these millions for centuries had been used mechanically as means of transportation or instruments of production, and despoiled not only of their material possessions, but also of their human attributes. The author states that although the Indian problem today varies in importance throughout the Americas, every country is obliged to concern itself with it. Mexico is making a frontal, integral attack on the Indian problem. To reinforce the agricultural base of this telluric race, lands have been assigned to individual Indians, and communally to ejidos, organized socially and economically according to persistent ancient forms and modern cooperative practices. With this came the foundation of the rural school, in which the teacher is both counsellor and ally of the Indian - fighting at his side as the earth is broken and living in the same hope for the harvest; the school program is shaped to the environment, applied to the race, and geared to the moment. These were not enough, so there followed agricultural experts, Central Agricultural Schools, rural credit facilities, ejidal banks, and with these a reinforcement of the basic program. The spirit was caught by high officials in government departments, intellectuals, and workers on all fronts. A Department of Indian |
