Word: pre-columbian
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...land-grabbers; their cultural and social solidarity fell apart. (This, McWilliams believes, was the intention of the Dawes Act.) Their language was suppressed in schools ("truly nightmarish institutions"), their religious ceremonies discouraged, their arts and crafts allowed to fade away. By 1923 they had declined in numbers "from the pre-Columbian estimate of 850,000 to around...
...exhibit of Pre-Columbian Art is still being shown in Fogg, and even those who are uninterested in art are urged to see it. This, coupled with the modern print collection, is ample indication that the Museum has finally hit the jackpot...
...exhibit of Pre-Columbian art now being shown at Fogg Museum is undoubtedly one of the most fertile and satisfying collections yet seen within the halls of any museum. The precise but masculine sculpture and handiwork of the Aztecs and Mayans cannot help but inspire in the minds of a spectator an inextinguishable spark of admiration for those cultures of the New World which preceded ours by several hundred years...
...effort and sympathetic understanding between the forces representing the church in America and the governmental agencies." By contrast, the report cited Commissioner Collier's well-known policy of helping Indians to "turn back to their so-called ancient cultures, and to revive pagan practices and ceremonies of the pre-Columbian era." This "appears to the Christian forces of America to be a denial of the right of Indians to enter into an appreciation of their Christian heritage, implicit in their status as American citizens...
...Strand Theatre in New Orleans last week, was marked by plain clothes and sincere praise. What the audience of educators, legislators, literati and plain people saw was a motion picture of startling photographic beauty, sweeping scope and social importance. A swift cinematic history of the vast Mississippi system from pre-Columbian times to yesterday afternoon, an inventory of its bounty and its toll, a report of Government reclamation activity, The River was in the same small class with Robert Flaherty's Mo'ana, John Grierson's Drifters, Joris Ivens' New Earth...