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Discrimination in West Hollywood (Script, 1947)
This is the story of Harry Crocker, a full-blooded Iroquois who lived in a house that was reserved for white people...
| The Great Native-American Athletes of the Early 20th Century (American Legion Magazine, 1940)
"Idolized, publicized, dramatized, picturesque members of a fast diminishing aboriginal race, they were the white man's heroes. But the white man's adulations and his indulgences helped write 'finis' prematurely on the records of some of them even as his vices quickened the racial degeneration of their stock."
"Sockalexis, Thorpe, Bender, Longboat and Meyers! There were scores of other notable Indian athletes from '93 to 1915, but the names of those five were household words in the early days of the new century."
| The Native Contribution to Latin America (Direction, 1941)
|   | Tales of the Assinibone Tribe (Direction, 1942)
"Land of the Nakoda: The Story of the Assinibone Indians" was the brain child of the Montana WPA (Works Progress Administration), Writers Project. The book is a collection of tales as told by the tribe elders and transcribed by one other member for publication in book form and it is still in print today.
| The Richest Tribe (Literary Digest, 1936)
Living, as we do, in the age of Indian gaming casinos it seems rather quaint to talk about which tribe was considered the richest of them all back in the Thirties. Nonetheless, this 1936 article tells the tale of the Osage Indians (Missouri) and the great wealth that was thrust upon them when oil was discovered on their tribal lands:
"In 1935, some 3,500 Osage Indians proved their right to the title of "wealthiest Indian tribe in America" by drawing an income of $5,000,000 from their oil and gas leases...The members of Chief Fred Lookout's tribe were not stingy with their new wealth. They bought clothes, big cars lavishly ornate homes..."
| Unsuspected Qualities of Indian Music (Literary Digest, 1908)
A short article on the topic Native American music and the studies of Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838 - 1923), who had overseen a number of Native American archival recording sessions around the time this article appeared in print. Fletcher once wrote:
"We find more or less of it in Beethoven and Schubert, still more in Schumann and Chopin, most of all in Wagner and Liszt."
TOPIC INDEX: National Bureau of Ethnology Study of Native American Music 1908,National Bureau of Ethnology Study of Native American Song 1908,National Bureau of Ethnology Study of Native American Harmony 1908,Alice Cunningham Fletcher Study of Native American Music 1908,Old Magazine Article Concerning Alice Cunningham Fletcher 1908,Alice Fletcher Studied Native American Music 1908,Similarities Between Classical Music and Native American Music,Comparisons of Classical Music and Native American Music
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