This unbound booklet was printed in 1960 or later.  It is a compilation of articles originally published serially in the historic Taos weekly newspaper El Crepusculo (Taos, N.M.), starting on August 27, 1959 through circa early 1960.  The booklet was donated to the Center of Southwest Studies by Carol Shepard (granddaughter of Ward Shepard), in June of 2005 (accession 2005:06004). These digital images were created in July of 2005 by Carol Shepard, who also wrote the following overview:

John Collier, first U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1933-1945), professor of anthropology at City College of New York, writer, poet, philosopher and “political activist” was, above all, a passionate and supreme storyteller and spokesperson for native peoples worldwide.  In this series of articles, written in 1959-1960 during his retirement in Taos, New Mexico, Collier draws us, first, into his intimate experience of the native peoples of the Southwest and their “crisis points” of confrontation with Western culture.  From there he takes us into a parallel experience of native cultures in other parts of the world and their similar crisis points.  Always he gives us his sense of the value and importance of ancient and indigenous ways of living.  Collier especially reminds us of what these peoples have to teach Western culture about respect for the natural web of life and the maintenance of harmony within human social relationships.

To read any page, click on the thumbnail image.

cover page	page 1 Aug. 27, 1959	page 2 Sept. 10, 1959	page 3 Sept. 24, 1959	page 4 Oct. 1, 1959
page 5 Oct. 8, 1959	page 6 Oct. 15, 1959	page 7 Oct. 22, 1959	page 8 Oct. 29, 1959	page 9 Nov. 26, 1959
page 10 Dec. 3, 1959	page 11 Dec. 10, 1959	page 12 Dec. 24, 1959	page 13 Jan. 7, 1960	page 14 undated (circa Jan. 14, 1960)
page 15 undated (circa Jan. 21, 1960)	page 16 undated (circa Jan. 28, 1960)	page 17 undated (circa Feb. 4, 1960)	page 18 undated (circa Feb. 11, 1960)	page 19 undated (circa Feb. 18, 1960)

For further reading:

The assault on assimilation: John Collier and the origins of Indian policy reform / by Lawrence C. Kelly; foreword by John Collier, Jr.  (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983).  LC call number: E93.C7 .K44 1983    

John Collier's crusade for Indian reform, 1920-1954 / by Kenneth R. Philp; with a foreword by Francis Paul Prucha.  (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1977).  LC call number: E93 .P5 1977

A copy of each of these books is available for use in the Delaney Southwest Research Library in the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, and a copy is available for check-out from Reed Library, the general library at Fort Lewis College.

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Digital imaging by Carol Shepard; web presentation by Todd Ellison, Center of Southwest Studies, July 2005.

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