A major effort to place together significant official documents outlining the path of Mexico (1919-2007) in dealing with its indigenous population, or {"indigenismo"} as it was called - largely conceived as a nationalist project of native cultural and social integration through assimilation or something similar. The work provides a valuable depiction of how official discourse evolves over time, and especially as the century winds down. Also shows how many of the demands made by rebels in the 1990s were issues that the state claimed it was already attending to, for example, restoring communal lands previously taken from indigenous communities (p. 727), even as it was doing and encouraging the opposite (the very duplicity which helped provoke the revolt in Tepoztlan, 1995). Without much more accompanying social context, these texts present a much more benign, flexible, and considerate state than was the actual case.