A stone age man, the last member of his tribe and the last living speaker of his language, walking in to modern civilization (1911) after a lifetime of living in the woods. The last wild Indian.
Let’s see:
Olohne, Cherokkee, Ishi, Sacajewa, etc.
They don’t teach this anymore?
I’m
All for it
And while you’re at it get rid of stupid white man names for mountains
Like Mt Diablo and go back to the Ohlone names
Kawukum. Tuyshtak. Jaman. Ojompile supemenu
White man corrupt sacred Indian places
“They don’t teach this anymore?”
I went through the CA Public Education system from Kindergarten to High School.
Throughout elementary school and middle school we were taught about the CA Indians. We even had field trips to village sites in the Sierras to see where they ground acorns and caught salmon.
What stood out was just how easy these Indians had it compared to other tribes. Food, shelter and weather was all figured out for them, all they had to do was use the abundance.
Millions of Salmon would come up rushing rivers, without fail. All the had to do was spear them with a stick, then dry and smoke.
A single valley oak would produce a TON of acorns.
Every river out of the Sierra had a tribe. They would migrate up and down that river with the seasons, winters in the Valley, summers up high.
A land of plenty, and then some.
A stone age man, the last member of his tribe and the last living speaker of his language, walking in to modern civilization (1911) after a lifetime of living in the woods. The last wild Indian.