I July 16, 1971

4.1 AOB Journal of Free VoicesS ERVER 250 A Window to the South [—I July 16, 1971 • Photos by Reagan Bradshaw Courtesy of Texas Parks & Wildlife Department These rocks, the Hueco Tanks, are in a state park near El Paso. According to Tigua mythology, the Wiede, the Tigua's spirit, created the Indians in the caves of the Hueco Tanks. The Tiguas lost most of their land, including that which is sacred to them. The State of Texas has returned portions of the Hueco Tanks for the Tiguas to develop as revenue-producing tourist facilities, but the Indians have filed a federal claim to regain all of their ancestral land. Please see story on page three. The coming fortnight . By Suzanne Shelton JULY 10 JULY 20 TINY ALICE — Someday someone will do MORE FLICKS — Alley Theatre continues its JULY GRAB BAG "Alice in Wonderland" with just the right touch summer film festival with a week of "The of madness; maybe it will be Trinity University's Cinematic Comedians," including the great one, WESTERN ART — Selections from the Amon Children's Theatre in this musical adaptation W. C. Fields, in "The Old Fashioned Way," July Carter Museum's permanent collection, including directed by Paul Baker; also July 13, 15, 17, 20, 20-21; Charlie Chaplin in one of his greatest three new acquisitions — Georgia O'Keeffe's 22, and 24, 2:30 p.m., Ruth Taylor Theatre, films, "The Circus," July 22-23; and Fields "Ranchos Church, Taos, New Mexico," William Trinity University, San Antonio. teamed with Mae West in the famous "My Little Harnett's "Front Face," and Martin Johnson Chickadee," July 24-25, Alley Theatre, Houston. Heade's "Marshfield Meadows, Mass;" through JULY 12 JULY 23 Sept. 12, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, FIESTA — La Fiera de las Flores, sponsolud Fort Worth. PIANO RECITAL — Summer Piano by League of United Latin American Citizens, Performance Workshop for High School Students features girls in elaborate costumes representing presents selected participants in public recital; 8 ONE MAN SHOW — H. Dixon Bennett each section of Central America plus mariachis exhibits paintings, drawings and prints, which p.m., Music Building Recital Hall, University of and the works; through July 18, La Villita Texas, Austin. have won him regional and national awards; Assembly Hall, San Antonio. through July 25, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. CAMELOT — Valor and schmaltz in the days (Calendar events may be submitted to The SOUTHWESTERN SHAKESPEARE — The of King Arthur, with John Davidson as the Globe of the Great Southwest's third unlikely hero, in Dallas Summer Musicals Coming Fortnight, Texas Observer, 600 W. 7th Shakespeare Festival features "The Merchant of production of "Camelot;" through July 25, 8:15 St., Austin, 78701.) Venice," "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar" and, for p.m. nightly except Mondays, also 2:30 p.m. variety, Moliere's "The Miser," playing Saturdays and Sundays, State Fair Music Hall, alternately Tuesdays through Saturdays; through Dallas. August 10, Globe of the Great Southwest, Odessa. JULY 13 After the fact of Kent FLICK FEST — The fourth week of Alley TEACHERS TURN — The teaching staff of Theatre Cinematic Classics is titled "The There are four students dead Parkcrest Gallery exhibits its own works in Cinematic Spine-Titiglers" with "Night of the Ready for their pagan rite "Exhibition '71," with samples by Marjorie Living Dead," science-fiction account of ghostly Thousands of their former kind Miller, Don Berkman, Lynda Lael McCullick and mutations due to atomic testing, July 13-14; Marshall Toliver; through July 18, Parkcrest Had aging thoughts last night Simone Signoret in the nerve-wracking The V-P bravely steps up to Gallery, 5408 Parkcrest, Austin. "Diabolique," July 15-16; and a double-bill, Salvador Dali's "Un Chien Andalou" and "The The insistent microphone TOTEM POLES — "Out of the Silence," Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," by Robert Wiene, both To let the men of business know• photographs by Adelaide de Menil, focus on silent films, July 17-18; 8:30 p.m. with weekend What they have always known disappearing art of the totem pole in Pacific showings at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Alley Theatre, "Those who turn to violence Northwest; through Sept. 5, Amon Carter Houston. Are the cause of tragedy." Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth. They brought it on themselves MOVIES — Cinema 40 continues its summer JULY 14 They got what they deserve. schedule with these oldies-b-g: Jean Renoir's GIACOMETTI — If you're a fan of the long He paused, 'Perhaps,' I thought, "Rules of the Game," July 13; "Dinner at Eight" and lean in art, see "Giacometti Graphics;" `To watch his words bounce back upon with a young Clark Gable and Jean Harlow, July through August 29, South Garden Gallery, Himself and all who work at Dow, 16; "The Tenth Victim," a Marcello Mastroanni Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Lockheed, Rand, and the Pentagon. movie, July 20; and "The Night of the Iguana" And perhaps he'll recognize with Richard Burton actually acting, July 23; TEXART — Twenty-fourth Texas Painting and His own guilt and he'll confess 7:30 and 9 p.m., Texas Union Theatre, Sculpture Competitive Exhibition presents And will kill himself in view University of Texas, Austin. selective survey of recent work by resident Texas artists, juried by New York artist Ray Parker; Of hungry T.V. cameras.' KIDDIE ART — "To Delight a Child" is an through Sept. 5, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, For those who live by violence exhibit of oils, drawings, stoneware and sculpture Fair Park, Dallas. They bring it on themselves by artists in the gallery collections of Cornwell They're the cause of tragedy Galleries, Dreyer Gallery, David Gallery and the THOREAU ENCORE — In case you missed They get what they deserve? Alfred Lee Gallery; through July 30, Jewish the Alley Theatre's production, the Trinity But he sucked in a breath Community Center, 5601 South Braeswood, University Drama Department tries its hand at And exhaled more words designed Houston. "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail," chronicle of To pull contributions from Henry Thoreau's refusal to pay taxes to support The uneasy business minds an immoral war (sound familiar?); through July JAPANESE ART — Woodblocks by And the four unlearned students contemporary Japanese artists; through August, 17, also July 20-24, 8:15 p.m. Ruth Taylor Marjorie Kauffman Graphics, Houston. Theatre, Trinity University, San Antonio. Used to registration lines Waited patiently a day JULY 9 JULY 15 For funeral ceremony time. SUMMER DRAMER — "Shoot If You Must TEATRO CHICANO — In dramatization of La, la, la, la la laaaa This Old Grey Hair, but Don't Knock Over My Mexican-American point of view and life in the La, la la la, la, la, laaaaaa Beer" is the title of the classical drama of barrios, Teatro Chicano presents cultural dances aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa antiquity offered by the dedicated dramatists of and songs; Zilker Hillside Park, Austin. Haaa, ha, ha, ha Corpus Christi; through July 10, 8:30 p.m., Little Don Sanders Theatre, Corpus Christi. JULY 18 ROCK FEST — Sonar Productions (which Berkeley ON HIS OWN — Stephen Stills of Crosby, consists of three UT students) brings folk groups, Stills, Nash & Young, Hemisfair Arena, San solo artists and rock groups for an all-day Sanders is a folksinger now living in Antonio. rockeroo; 2 to 9 p.m., Fiesta Gardens, Austin. Houston. The Wiede at Hueco Tanks By Don Walden Few women work, however, because they The 33 who dropped out provide a have children and no marketable skills. sobering contrast to the hope that the Alton Griffin, the state's superintendent El Paso college candidates inspire, and they may be Joe Sierra started kicking where a for the tribe, emphasizes the need for more typical of the Tigua experience. handful of brown, dried leaves were vocational education for both men and Griffin says that these children dropped women especially in the Indian crafts work out for the same reasons that affect half-buried in the sand. He uncovered a etc. dark, carrotlike root three or four inches minority children everywhere. Their For the Tigua's economic situation to long and held it up. "This is what they parents, not convinced of the value of improve, both Pedraza and Griffin agree, used — canagria." He broke it open; it was education, do not provide the motivation they must have better education. reddish-orange, and he ran his thumb they need at home, and overcrowded, poor Fifty-eight percent of the people are under across the break to show how easily the housing does not provide the atmosphere 21, a fact which represents a great for studying. Many do not get to high color came off. "They mixed it with opportunity for improvement through almagre. It'll never wear off." school until they are 17 or older, and when education. So far, however, the Tigua they do they feel too inadequate to We were standing in front of the Cueva experience with education has been de las Mascaras continue. (the cave of the masks) at disappointing. There were 439 persons in Hueco Tanks. Joe is a state park attendant; Several solutions to these problems have the community in February. Of 184 over been proposed. Pedraza speaks of a school he is also an alquacil (constable) of the 21, the average number of years of school for Indians only. He says that their Tigua Indian Community of Ysleta. He is was four, but more ominously 20% of also a.council member of the Tiguas. language would not be a problem. In these have no formal education at all.

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