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Show 25 Editorial. "The Creation of National Indian Institutes," America Indigena, Vol. II No. Ill (July, 1942), Mexico, D.F., pp. 3-5. Article is written in both Spanish and English. 1943 Editorial. "The Day of the Indian," America Indigena, III No. 1 (January, 1943). Written in both Spanish and English. Larco Herrera, Rafael (Peru). "Internacionalidad del Problema Indigena en America" America Indigena, III No. 3 (July, 1943), Mexico, D.F., pp. 191-197. English Summary: Indianism, the author claims, is not a problem of only one American people. Various southern nations face it and for that reason commence to arouse the action of all those countries united in their yesterday by that human capital which the conqueror developed since the colonial period, in spite of the well-directed dispositions of the Spanish monarchies and the warm defense of many noble spirits of the peninsula. The aboriginal was exploited in mines and in field and still feels the pain of the conquest which for him has not yet ended. There is an Indian problem in Mexico as there is in Nicaragua, Chile, Guatemala or Peru, and, displaced from its national enclosure, the problem suggests considerations that are parallel in several latitudes of the continent. It deals with ideas which should not be overlooked. Finally, the author proposes the following conclusions : First: Establish an Inter-American Institute of Indian Experimental Psychology which will cooperate with all the related countries and for action by the three State powers: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial, determining a legislation adequate to the Indian reality. The personnel of this Inter-American Institute should be integrated by persons who love the bronze race and who have worked in their favor. Second: Create, where it does not exist, an Indigenous Ministry which would deal with each and every problem connected to the aboriginal race and which would take charge of developing an Indian folklore culture, as well as the conservation of their monuments and artistic traditions. Third: Elevate the material level of the Indian's life, in the general atmosphere, a level to which his spiritual betterment is strongly bound; all this, through the economic aid of the State and with its tutelary. |
