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Show 23 lacking even salt. Dishonor to the citizen of our country who assumes he will be captured by a handful of adventurers. We reject their pretensions, and if they persist, we resist their force with force." The Arawaks had an advanced and immense political organization; upon their civilization was built the power of Tiahuanaco which would account for the scientific, artistic and philosophic development that Quichuas and Aymaras carried forward and "that later culminated with the civilization of Ayllus, which, without loss of spiritual values, prepared the way for systems of government founded upon the sacred principles of democracy. The public officials are elected by popular vote. The basis for their doctrines is work, the capital of the state is the national economy, and individuals have the right and liberty of securing family fortunes and positions of respect; men, women, and children have attained such a surprising development of work that even the blind and invalid have a place in the society, something which we have not achieved in modern commun- There are evidences in every corner of America of Indian achievement which speak in defense of the native American. Amado Nervo was right when he said, "The spirit will speak for my race, and when the spirit is intimidated, the body will fight for the spirit." Uranga H., Javier. "Que Es Indigenismo," America Indigena, Vol. 1 No. 1 (October, 1941), Mexico, D.F., pp. 51-56. English Summary: Professor Uranga states that the experience of Mexico has revealed that there are three types of Indianists-practical workers, theoreticians, and those interested in Indian work only for its remuneration. The burden of the action program that is necessary has been carried by the practical Indianist who neither recognizes Spencer nor heeds Marx. His path is marked by the needs of the Indian, the first of which is to subsist. The vulnerability of the Indian race economically has caused its decadence and forlornness; it has been crushed by the lack of such basic requirements as health services and education. The practical Indianist must be a fighter. "In every community and in every tribe he will meet insatiable octopi, who have, since the first days of the conquest, converted the Indian into the primary economic factor of their existence. The mestizo who always refers to himself as a 'criollo' has exploited the lands, gotten the Indians to work for him and paid them "less than the expense of maintaining a skinny mule in an empty stable." In such surroundings, none of the social gains of workers are known. Among the Indians' enemies, the practical Indianist will find those who transfer the debts from the deceased to his heirs, the |