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The Navajo code-talkers in the Second World War are well-known, but not so terribly well known were their brothers the Sioux, and the similar contributions that they had made just twenty years earlier in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. This is the story of Harry Crocker, a full-blooded Iroquois who lived in a house that was reserved for white people... This column by Andrés Iduarte (1907 - 1984) addressed the popularity of Los Indios in the arts of Latin America throughout the 1930s. What came to be known as "the pro-Indian movement" in the U.S. of the 1960s was a political development in the counter-culture of that era, but thirty years earlier it was a trend in the arts of Latin America. Andrés Iduarte covered the contributions of painters, poets, novelists and sculptors who were all of Native descent south of the Rio Grande (FYI: Brazil is not mentioned in this article). "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.
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."
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