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Show 135 nor the integral character of their evolution, but, on the other hand, they know, on a greater or lesser scale, what is peculiar to the groups of Occidental culture because they belong to them. As a consequence, in order to help the former, an investigation must first be made of their true cultural characteristics and their necessities and aspirations considered integrally, making use of the sciences, particularly the social sciences: ecology, history, anthropology, sociology, etc, From these investigations are derived the practical and approved means with which the inferior situation of these aboriginal groups must be bettered. When the former Department of Anthropology of Mexico had finished, integrally, the scientific investigations relative to the pre-Columbian, colonial and contemporary periods of Teotihuacan Valley, it was noted that there still remained something to be considered, and this was the purely artistic manifestations of the population. That is to say, the most sincere and spontaneous expressions of their multiform way of being and of living. Consequently, to the corps of scientific investigators were added artists and critics in the fields of music, song, dance, painting, sculpture, etc., who carried out their commission with respect to the three aforementioned chronological periods, thus completing that which the scientific investigation had not taken into account. 1959 Carvalho Neto, Paulo De. "El Indigenismo y El Nino," America Indigena, XIX No. 3 (July, 1959), pp. 219-223. English Summary: This article on "Indianism and the Child" has as its object the presentation, even though briefly, of what has been achieved to date in benefit of the Indian child, looking toward the XI Pan-American Congress of the Child (Bogota, November 22-29, 1959), whose principal subject, "Abandonment of the Child in America," includes a section on "Abandonment of the Indian Child." Lacking summarized studies on the Indian child, the author of this article offers data gathered from various sources. For example, he speaks of the medical attention given in the United States to Indian children as well as their integration into white schools. Concretely, in 1952, 198 doctors and dentists with 711 nurses and 140 interns lent their services in 62 hospitals and 10 Indian dispensaries, with approximately 40,000 children being treated by the dentists, while in 1948 the medical attention on the reservations was very deficient. |