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Show 136 Also, in Latin America, in countries like Ecuador where the I.L.O. Andean Mission functions, in Mexico with the Coordinating Centers of the National Indian Institute, and in various other countries, the help being given, economically, hygienically as well as in education, to the Indian children is every day better organized and more effective. The author concludes by noting the necessity for gathering together in a well documented study everything referring to the Indian child, in order to be able to work more effectively. 1960 Friede, Juan. "Los Indios y la Historia," America Indigena, XX, No. 1 (January, 1960), pp. 63-66. English Summary: The author discloses in this article the dire consequences for America that can result from the false belief of some historians that the pre- Hispanic Indian culture was of no value. It is necessary that those who study the history of America place its origins not just since the arrival of the white man in 1492 but that they also include the centuries of pre-Hispanic Indian culture; that this culture be studied in all its facets, many of which have valuable survivals. Both Indians and white men have influenced the formation of the American nationalities. For this reason, the author asserts that the history of a country cannot be true while it continues to be unilateral. At the present time there exists an enormous amount of material in archives which makes it impossible to ignore the part played by the Indian in the formation of the various American nationalities. Buitron, Anibal. "La Investigacion y el Mejoramiento de las Condiciones de Vida," America Indigena, XX, No. 2 (April, 1960) pp. 97-101. English Summary: Various examples are cited by the author of this article to demonstrate the extreme importance of starting with an adequate knowledge of the ways of life and work of a human group when an attempt is being made to carry out a project for improving living conditions. To demonstrate this, he presents three eloquent examples: Many attempts have been made to try to get the natives to raise their cooking fires off the ground. Nevertheless, those who for hygienic reasons have attempted this have not always considered the fact that when the fire is raised from ground level it frequently loses other fundamental functions: for instance, that of heating the surrounding atmosphere in the cold zones. |
