Red Men in Red Square
by Claude Clayton Smith

• In the summers of 1990 and 1991 a traditional Indian Chief, Chief Big Eagle of the Golden Hill reservation in Trumbull, Connecticut, visited Moscow and Leningrad, where he became acquainted with a group of Soviet citizens known as the Indianists, Soviet citizens who study -- and try to live by -- the ways, crafts, and religion of Native-American tribes.

• The Indianists, “who first became acquainted with Native Americans...through the books of James Fenimore Cooper and Thomas Mayne Reid” regard Indianism as “a state of soul and a way of life.”

• "Each summer...near Leningrad an American Indian camp appears with teepees, a totem pole, and people dressed as they were when America was discovered."

• "Each generation must deal with Communism in its own way. The Indianists choose to ignore it."

• The chief’s response to these experiences:
  "In the future, young Native Americans may have to come to Russia to learn how to be Indians."

• One of the Indianists states:
  "The American Indians are my cousins. In today's world all people are one."

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