Word: tarascan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That left more than 6,000,000 illiterates (30% of the nation) to be taught, and many of them are Tarascan, Mayan, and Otomi Indians who speak only their own languages. To educate them, the government is now using a new hotly disputed technique; they are first taught to read & write in their native dialects, then are taught Spanish. Not for another year, and only after reports are in on a similar UNESCO pilot-project in Haiti, will educators decide just how good this scheme...
...leader reversed the tide of reaction. Lázaro Cárdenas, a Tarascan Indian, finally made good some of the revolution's promises of land for the landless. In six years he expropriated and apportioned to peasants 45 million acres, over twice as much as all his revolutionary predecessors. But corruption and a shortage of plows and tractors and know-how held production down...
...months ago, Salvador Toscano, who is an official of Mexico's Palacio de Bellas Artes, suggested that Rivera give his collection a public airing. When art historians got busy on the collection they found that what they had long called Tarascan art, and knew almost nothing about, was actually a collection of several cultures in the states of Michoacan, Jalisco, Colima and Nayarit. A German-born ethnologist, Dr. Paul Kirchhoff, was called in to lend a hand. He found that Rivera had one of the greatest treasuries...
...rida maintains that many of the wiggly goblins and squat blobs which appear in paintings like Time Has Stratified Eternity are derived from ancient Mayan and Tarascan art forms. To 20th-Century eyes they look more like something seen through a microscope. Though they seem easy, Mérida gets his striking half-old, half-new effects after painstaking study; the raw, vivid colors are invariably surprising, and the figures, however grotesque, seem very much alive. Some of the paintings were the result of a visit to Texas. "The land there is as flat as a sea," says...
...northern Mexico. His "junta" in San Antonio still seemed to be without organization. So feeble were the Almazan efforts to toss the Government out that some haters of President Cardenas in Mexico City hinted they would transfer their allegiance to swart little General Joaquin Amaro, a tough, full-blooded Tarascan Indian who would love to seize power and run Mexico as a dictatorship...