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

[Derksen Jacob]

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. 
 

> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:37:46 -0500
> From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU
> Subject: [ILAT] A century later, Ishi still has lessons to teach (fwd link)
> To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
> 
> 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 BERKELEY - They came both to bury Ishi — at least the outdated notion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. “
> 
> Access full article below:
> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/12/century-of-ishi/
 		 	   		  
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ilat/attachments/20110913/c27a8bab/attachment.htm>