A Bosnian Ishi walking along D + E streets north in a world devoid of humanity | post |
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11 Sept 2020> Re-read Ishi in Two Worlds, a book of our mothers that we got after she died, about the last "wild" American Indian... a remarkable story, the last of his tribe of Yahi Indians in Northern California. He stumbled into Oroville in 1911 + then lived out his life (he died in 1916) in a museum in Berkeley... what a concept to be the last of your tribe (we were reminded of it while reading Earth Abides, about a character named Ishi who goes camping in the Sierra Nevadas + when he returns (to Berkeley) he discovers that every 1 is dead), the last speaker of your language (which incidentally was unique in that there were diffrent dialects for men + women) + then live in a museum while people gawked at u, watching u make arrowheads, etc. |
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# 784 <(current)> 786> iiiiiiiiiii... west with the night along C + D southeast | ||
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