Seegers Will Play Sanders Theatre To Benefit Indians

Folk singer Pete Seeger and members of his family will give a benefit concert at Sanders Theater on November 23 to raise money for Brazilian Indians and publicize their plight.

Cultural Survival, Inc., a non-profit organization which provides financial assistance to indigenous tribal groups, and the Anthropology Department are sponsoring the concert in collaboration with the Boston-based Anthropology Resource Center.

David H.P. Maybury-Lewis, chairman of the Anthropology Department and president of Cultural Survival, said yesterday recent Brazilian legislation, the Emancipation of the Indians Act, has "deprived the Indians of the little government aid they got and made them open-season for exploitation."

Cultural Survival organized the concert at the request of Tony Seeger '67, who teaches anthropology at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Jason W. Clay '73, director of research at Cultural Services, said yesterday.