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Show 31 The International Treaty or Convention approved and signed by representatives of the American nations created the Inter-American Indian Institute and determined the regulations that should govern subsequent Inter-American Indian Congresses as well as National Indian Institutes affiliated with the parent Institute. The Institute has fulfilled its mission satisfactorily, as the contents of its numerous publications corroborate. As the Institute is an Inter-American organization devoting its major endeavors to the solution of the problems of the continental Indian population, which in turn impedes national progress in view of the lower living standards which these groups suffer, an annual pay quota is hoped for in order to liquidate the balance gradually. 1959 Editorial. "America Latina o America Indoiberica?" America Indigena, XIX No. 2 (April, 1959), pp. 83084. Why is the name of Latin America generally given to the immense region extending from the Rio Bravo or Rio Grande (which serves in great part as the boundary between the United States and Mexico) to the south of Argentina and Brazil? Why then shouldn't that part of the continent which is included from this river to the northern reaches of Canada be called Anglo-Saxon America? The name Latin America can suggest that those who inhabit this great territorial extension are individuals who descend only from the so-called Latin European peoples, but this is not exact, since among them are more than 100 million Indians and mestizos. Because of the above, we believe that the name Indo-Iberian America is more logical and expressive than that of Latin America, since its inhabitants are descendants both of Indians and of ancestors from the Iberian Peninsula, or rather Spanish and Portuguese. 1960 Editorial. "La Aculturacion del Indigena," America Indigena, XX, No. 1 (January, 1960), pp. 3-6. Editorial in Spanish and English. Discussion of the difference in type of culture between the Indian and mestizo groups. Editorial. "In Memoriam Dr. Manuel Gamio," America Indigena, XX, No. 4 (October, 1960), pp. 243-244. This issue of America Indigena is dedicated to the memory of the man who was Director of this Institute for 18 years: Dr. Manuel Gamio, who together with the |