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<p>Thanks, Richard,</p>
<div>"I think its OUR time to study the studiers, do anthropology on the anthropologists, archaeology on the archaeologists </div>
<p>linguistic studies on you "expert" linguists! Might be a new field in and of itself --- especially within Native colleges!"</p>
<p>I agree, and I have been thinking about it. Especially now there are more and more of us so-called "heritage linguists" (indigenous people working with their own language/culture). We should do something...</p>
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<p>Chun (Jimmy) Huang</p>
<p>Assistant Professor, Department of English and Applied Linguistics</p>
<p>De La Salle University - Manila</p>
<p>On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:36:41 -0500, Richard Zane Smith wrote:</p>
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<div>It was reading the book Ishi in the 70's that sparked me and made me take notice</div>
<div>of how anthropology,a brand new field, was studying people as rare specimens in a dish.</div>
<div>The article is good, and it was good to hear aboriginal people respond.</div>
<div>I'm not sure I agree with one of the last comments quoted in the article:</div>
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<div>well...Though, this might have been the attitude of land grabbing U.S. government, where any other "nation" is a threat,</div>
<div>Other forces were at work that are STILL having a detrimental effect on our survival as indigenous cultures.</div>
<div>One was(and is) cultural ignorance from popular novel induced infatuation with <strong><em> "the last of....<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">(fill in the blank")</span></em></strong></div>
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<div>feeding a kind of wistful sentimentalism that was being applied widespread upon traditional cultures facing violent opposition</div>
<div>and even extinction. "aww...the poor little indians" . </div>
<div>Feeling pity is dangerous because it often supplants itself as a substitute for real action.</div>
<div>"I feel sorry...therefore I'm not the oppressor , and because i feel sorry...I've done what i can."</div>
<br />there are OTHER forces at work on the powerful down stream flow against ALL of us working on cultural revitalization efforts.
<div>I think its OUR time to study the studiers, do anthropology on the anthropologists, archaeology on the archaeologists </div>
<div>linguistic studies on you "expert" linguists! Might be a new field in and of itself --- especially within Native colleges!<br />
<div class="gmail_quote">Sohahiyoh (Richard Zane Smith)</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">Wyandotte Oklahoma</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Derksen Jacob <span><<a href="mailto:jieikobu@hotmail.com">jieikobu@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br />
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks for sending that along. It was the 1978 tv movie, Ishi: Last of His Tribe, that acted as the spark that ignited my interest in endangered languages. Just last month I had occasion to be in San Francisco and happened to find a copy of Theodora Kroeber's book of the same name. <br /> <br />
<div>> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:37:46 -0500<br />> From: <a href="mailto:cashcash@EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU">cashcash@EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU</a><br />> Subject: [ILAT] A century later, Ishi still has lessons to teach (fwd link)<br /> > To: <a href="mailto:ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU">ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU</a>
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<div class="h5"><br />> <br />> A century later, Ishi still has lessons to teach<br />> <br />> By Barry Bergman, NewsCenter | September 12, 2011<br /> > USA<br />> <br />> BERKELEY - They came both to bury Ishi — at least the outdated notion<br />> of Ishi prevalent in pop culture — and to praise him. They came to<br />> learn from him, to remember him not as a research subject but as a<br /> > teacher, not as an artifact of a vanishing culture but as a survivor<br />> and, as Berkeley law professor Karen Biestman put it, “a pioneer of<br />> indigenous intellectual property protection.”<br />> <br />> <br /> > Earl Neconie, right, gave the morning's traditional blessing (Peg<br />> Skorpinski photos)<br />> Joseph Myers, a School of Law graduate and lecturer in Native American<br />> studies here, put it more simply.<br /> > <br />> “I like the idea of celebrating Ishi,” Myers said. “But let’s<br />> celebrate him as a human being. “<br />> <br />> Access full article below:<br />> <a href="http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/12/century-of-ishi/">http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/12/century-of-ishi/</a></div>
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