A century later, Ishi still has lessons to teach (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

A century later, Ishi still has lessons to teach

By Barry Bergman, NewsCenter | September 12, 2011
USA

BERKELEY - They came both to bury Ishi — at least the outdated notion
of Ishi prevalent in pop culture — and to praise him. They came to
learn from him, to remember him not as a research subject but as a
teacher, not as an artifact of a vanishing culture but as a survivor
and, as Berkeley law professor Karen Biestman put it, “a pioneer of
indigenous intellectual property protection.”


Earl Neconie, right, gave the morning's traditional blessing (Peg
Skorpinski photos)
Joseph Myers, a School of Law graduate and lecturer in Native American
studies here, put it more simply.

“I like the idea of celebrating Ishi,” Myers said. “But let’s
celebrate him as a human being. “

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