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Jeff might use information on Ishi, last of the Yahi,…
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Jeff might use information on Ishi, last of the Yahi, in his linguistics dissertation. He mentioned this today in Russian class, which amused me for two reasons. First, the anthropologist whom we most associate with Ishi was Al Kroeber, whose daughter Ursula K. Le Guin I'll see at four when she speaks on campus. Second, the TA taught Jeff the word for tribes. Plemenya. Oh, shades of the summer!
