El Palacio, Vol. 24

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Excerpt from El Palacio, Vol. 24: March 24, 1928To many people there still exists the bogey man Irr dian of the misinformed fiction writers of former times. For generations we have been reading the false state ments of these fictionists and believing them. But, thanks to a few great figures who have had the courage to defend him, we are slowly gaining an understanding of the red man's nature, and slowly realizing that he is an aesthetic giant. Material advancement has nothing' to do with this quality. The aesthetic nature is purely Spiritual. From it come painting, sculpture, music, poetry and drama - fields of artistic endeavor in which the indian excels.As a hangover from the preceding generations of mis informed whites, there are still those among us Ameri cans who assume the I know attitude as they behold the work of the Indian artists and craftsmen, and often say: How like the work of a child! Yet the original Americans, in the application of the aesthetic instinct so far surpass such people as to put them to shame.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.