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Show 24 Governor of the State who imposes "per capita" taxes for health services which the Indian never receives, and the legislative representative who, through the Municipal President, requires the Indians to provide food for receptions given in honor of the governor. The Municipal President is also guilty of intoxicating the Indians and then employing them without pay in public service activities. Since the Indians often cannot write, the Governor sends a Municipal secretary to the community who, in addition to other infamies, falsifies ballots in fraudulent elections. Another type of enemy is the "pettifogger" who derives his livelihood from fees imposed on illiterate Indians for "legal" services in settling difficulties which he invents. Then there is often the priest who refuses confession to dying persons who fail to pay their tithes. Over all these is the mestizo, in general, who holds contempt for the Indians and who profits greatly from purchases which he frequently makes from them. A new type of enemy has developed in our midst - the influential ejidatario who avoids having lands assigned in order to allot the plots annually, charging the Indians more each time. The Indianist places his life in danger while attempting to rid the Indians of these parasites. Although no steps have been taken to develop an economic program beneficial to the Indians, a start has been made to protect the Indians from those who exploit them. 1942 Hill, Jasper. "Editorial," America Indigena, II No. 1 (January, 1942), Mexico, D.F., pp. 5-7. The Inter-American Indian Institute yields its editorial page to the far-reaching and poetic words of an American Indian, Great White Owl of the Lenni Lenape Nation of Canada. This speech was given at the First Inter-American Conference on Indian Life on April 18, 1940. Written in Spanish and English. Editorial. "Convencion que estatuye el Instituto Indigenista Inter-americano, America Indigena, II No. 1 (January, 1942), Mexico, DoF., pp. 9-19. The Agreement setting up the statutes of the Inter- American Indian Institute. Written in English and Spanish. Editorial. "Organizacion Definitiva Del Instituto," America Indigena, II No. II (April, 1942), Mexico, D.F., pp. 5-9. Article is written in both Spanish and English. |