Word: indianizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Ellsworth R. Schindler, a Seneca Indian, was working last year in the Detroit plant of Ford Motor Co. he contracted with Contract Purchasing Corp. of Detroit to buy a 1936-model Dodge for $500 in installments. When he lost his job last December he went home to Cattaraugus Reservation, taking with him his car, on which he still owed $296. Receiving no more payments from him, the credit company sought to repossess...
Living in isolated Indian villages from British Columbia to Panama, intrepid Investigator Densmore has collected some 2,500 Indian songs and written 20 books about them. Most of the books have been published by Washington's august Smithsonian Institution. Last week the latest of them, a monograph entitled Nootka and Quileute Music, started rolling through the Institution's presses...
Miss Densmore's finds include whole Indian folk operas, entertainments requiring as long as nine hours to perform. Medicine men have confided to her secret therapeutic chants. A typical one is the San Bias Indians' cure for hangover...
...started making her records in the rear of a music store at Detroit Lakes, Minn. The following year the Smithsonian became so interested in her finds that it decided to back her in a series of expeditions. She traveled alone, making her headquarters in Indian agents' offices, jails, woodsheds and even tribal bake-ovens...
Today, Miss Densmore's principal concern is in getting her thousands of Indian recordings transferred to permanent, standard phonograph discs. Of her past adventures and hardships she speaks modestly. Says she: "I have no special philosophy, but nothing downs...