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Show PREFATORY REMARKS Some of the niceties of editorial preparation have been foregone in order to have this material ready for classwork to begin Summer and Autumn quarters of 1977. Comments, corrections, and suggestions for improvement will be appreciated from those who may receive copies of these compilations. These will be useful in any later reissues of the materials. Your sufferance is also invited in the examination of summaries of articles and other materials translated for the first time from the Spanish. Our deadlines did not allow for the usual checking by a second translator. Indians comprise a significant part of the total population of the Americas and of many particular nations. The topical sections include summaries of articles from institute publications that help the reader compare the ways that health, education, community development and other programs are handled from nation to nation, and also provide a general background to help give perspective to the events concerning Indians that transpire in one's own nation. The relations between European nations and the Native Americans during the Colonial period and the continuing relationships with the nations of the Americas through the revolutionary era, into the national period, and until the present continue to be of interest to scholars in the humanities and social sciences. |