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Show 65 Zoology and botany may also be used to explain many of the economic, social and religious ideas which, existed. An outstanding example is the lack of beasts of burden in America. Sociology helps us to understand the family concepts and the class divisions which arise. Anthropology and esthetics help us to understand and appreciate indigenous art-an art which is not merely the haphazard technique of individuals but has its roots deep in the tradition and culture of the people. It is an expression of the beautiful, sometimes purely esthetic, sometimes utilitarian. Only by means of study in the mentioned fields and auxiliary fields such as archaeology, ethnology, etc., can we really penetrate the primitive society of America. Science, concludes the author, shows that the American Indian, governed by nature, encountered the same obstacles, utilized the same means to overcome them and was gifted with the same physical and spiritual potentialities as other primitive groups. The difference, insofar as there is a difference, comes from the adaptation to the peculiar surroundings of each. Editorial. "Politics and the Indigenous Population of America," America Indigena, III, No. 4 (October, 1943) Mexico, D.F., pp. 291-294. Article written in English, summary in Spanish. 1944 Vivo, Jorge A. (Mexico). "Acerca del Problema Indigena en Hispano America." America Indigena, IV, No. 1 (January, 1944), Mexico, D.F., pp. 31-36. English summary: The author suggests that one way of dealing with the Indian problem is to consider the relative density of the population. For this purpose he classifies the countries of the continent into three groups: those which have less than 100,000 Indians, like El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama: those which have between 100,000 and 1,000,000 like the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela; and those which have more than 1,000,000 like Paraguay, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru. In those countries where the Indians constitute a majority of the population, economic, cultural, political and health progress, that is the four fundamentals necessary for the future wellbeing of these countries which can be obtained only if these programs are put into action in the centers of Indian population. Thus, for countries like the United States, the Antilles, and Brazil, the application of the Atlantic Charter should mean aiding the Negro population, and similarly aiding the Indian people of the countries mentioned above. According to Vivo, the problem should be considered as an integral |