a Wm A aL HOLLYWOOD STINKERS. White supremacy films slander Native Indians ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, the MGM musical starring Betty Hutton, contains a disgusting caricature of the great Sioux statesman Tatakayotaka, better known as Sitting Bull. Tata- kayotaka was murdered 60 years ago at the instigation of Ameri- can army ‘authorities. Last of the great Indian Chiefs who sought to unite his people into a nation in order to better resist the invader of his lands and destroyer of his way of life, his killing was a prelude to one of the most gruesome massacres of colored people in our history. Two squadrons of the U.S. 7th Cavalry surrounded a Sioux camp, forced the’ Indians to sur- render their arms and while they were peacefully assembled outside their tepees, shot them down in cold blood with machine guns. Not one of the 146 Sioux was left alive to tell the tale. This side of the story is never told by Hollywood film-makers. To them Sitting Bull is just a name to toss around for laughs. Much worse than the caricature of Sitting Bull in Annie Get Your Gun is the slanderous depiction of the Apache Indians in Geronimo, a Paramount film. film paints the Apaches as blood-thirsty savages who enjoy sealping and murdering women and children. This is falsifying history with a vengeance, says a statement issued by the Com- munist Party of Arizona protesting the revival of Geronimo in Phoenix. : “The pages of American history are shamefully smeared with numerous massacres of peaceful Indians,” the statement points out. “Grave and treacherous crimes were committed against the Indian peoples of the Americas f the day the first European landed on its shores. Peace offe: ‘s and hospi- tality were quite often considered only as an opportunity to double-cross, cheat and murder innocent Indians. Driven from their lands, solemn treaties violated and wars of extermination carried on against them, the truth is that the Indian peoples carried on a heroic, militant struggle of defense of their lands and rights — a war for independence. “As for the Apache Indians, the truth is that they are a proud, independent and democratic people. They resisted with everything, including their lives, encroachments upon their lands and rights. “As for murder, treachery and savagery, let us just mention a few: In 1835, Juan Jose, chief of all Apaches, was brutally and treacherously murdered, along with many women and child- ren, by his most trusted ‘friend’, who wanted ito collect scaip bounties. The great Apache leader, Mangas Coloradas, was murdered, too, in a most brutal manner. Cochise, chief of the Chiricahua Apaches, while on a peaceful mission, was seized by U.S. soldiers, and only escaped with his life by a daring break. “Is there anything more cold-blooded than the slaughter of Pinal and Coyoteros Apaches near Miami, Arizona, while trust- ingly talking with whites about ways and means for greater understanding between them? “Qne hundred Aravaipa Apaches were slaughtered at old Camp Grant while asleep by Tucson vigilantes. Of these only eight were men, the rest women and children. They had com- mitted no crime. € The above was forwarded to Paramount by the Communist Party of Arizona with the demand that they outlaw such films as Geronimo, “which have poisoned the minds of the non-Indian population for many years,” encouraging and perpetuating the Nazi theory of white supremacy, setting white against colored. This vicious, white chauvinist , Tai lt wpa tity “We Specialize in 242 E. 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It is an extensive historical work of 36 chapters and approximately 700 pages, dealing with the general economic, political and cultural development of all the peoples of the Western Hemisphere. It will be entitled, An Outline Political History of the Americas. Foster has been working on the book for several years, putting the finish- ing touches on the first draft of it during the past year or so since he has been laid up. Foster’s book covers the whole range of the history of the West- ern Hemisphere from the days of Columbus’ discovery down to the present time. It is divided into three parts. The first part deals with the colonial period, the sec- ond with the period between the wars of independence and the de- velopment of the general crisis of world capitalism, while the third brings the historical narrative from the period of World War I down to date. The work is unique in that it links together the his- tory of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere into a relat- ed whole. Part one deals specifically with the discovery and exploration of the New World. It analyzes the In- dian peoples throughout the hemi- sphere, the conquest of the vast new territories, colonial, economic and political organization, the en- slaved colonial workers, the church in the colonies, and inter- nationai struggles for possession of the colonies. It ends with a general appraisal of the colonial liberation struggles and revolu- tions of the thirteen English col- onies, Haiti, the Spanish colonies, Brazil, and Canada during the period from 1776 to 1837. Part two discusses the estab- lishment of the 22 American na- tions,. the wars that have-taken place among them, the early ter- ritorial expansion of the United States and the growth of industry and imperialism in the United States and Canada. The retarded economic development of Latin America, pan-Americanism, the abolition of chattel throughout the hemisphere, the many: revolutions and dictators in Latin America and their signifi- the Mexican Revolution, people’s and working class strug- gles in the United States, and a general evaluation of the many democratic struggles throughout the hemisphere are also dealt with in the second part of the book. In the third part the book deals with World War I, the Russian Revolution, Syndicalism, Social- ism, and the Communist move- ment in the Americas, the great economic crisis and the growth of slavery cance, Tell them you saw it in the Tribune UNION HOUSE ZENITH CAFE 105 E. Hastings Street VANCOUVER, B.C. fascism, the people’s front, the New Deal and the Good Neighbor policy, World War II and its revo- lutionary consequences, Wall Street’s drive for conquest of the Western Hemisphere and the world, the struggles between rival WILLIAM Z. FOSTER imperialist powers, wealth and poverty in the Americas, the Latin American labor movement, pres- ent-day trade unionism in the United States and Canada, the national question in the struggles throughout the hemisphere, prob- lems of today, and the perspective for the people of the New World bring the book to a close. In general, Foster’s book traces the growth of capitalism from its earliest stages in the various coun- tries, and also the development of United States imperialism, with its growing attempt to reduce the whole stretch of the hemisphere, . from Hudson’s Bay to Cape Horn, into an imperialistic hinterland for Wall Street. The book also pays basic attention to the devel- opment of the democratic forces of the peoples, especially the’ Com- munist parties and trade unions, throughout the hemisphere. 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