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Show 14 way ii> the various countries. Another important connecting link of Inter-American Indianism has been its publications; among them, the magazine America Indigena that also celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. More than a million copies distributed in this period have publicized monographs and studies, reports and news concerning the work that is being carried out in the native communities of the Americas. Like America Indigena, published by the Inter-American Indian Institute the affiliated Institutes have in many cases published their own organs such as Accion Indigenista de Mexico, Guatemala Indigena, Peru* Indigena, Nicaragua Indigena and others. The Inter-American Indian Institute has also published various series, among which we shall mention the Anuario Indigenista, the series on American Indianist Legislation, technical manuals and primers, the series on the Indian Legacy of America, that of Applied Social Anthropology, as well as monographs on the past and present of some of the principal American cultures. We have already mentioned that from the viewpoint of Inter-American Indianism which, in reality, is that of social anthropology, it is not possible to attempt to raise the economic and social level of the Indian communities with the same methods used for the development of Western culture communities. For this, technicians and experts properly trained in the basic principles of anthropology must be used. And to make this possible, the Inter-American Indian Institute has created, with the collaboration of the OAS Social Affairs Department and with funds of the Technical Cooperation Program, various Inter-American Training Centers for technical personnel. In a sketchy way, work was started in the Sierra de |