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Uploaded by on May 23, 2006

For over a year I took video for a community access TV show "Conversations from the Farmers' Market". One day I interviewed this unknown Native American Poet and Story Teller. (The background music is live) This was the best interview I have so far done. I quit taping that day after the interview, and quit doing the show a couple of weeks later.

For more information on the Yahi People here is one link: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collres/archives/hist/ishi/

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  • Very intense. Was that a spontaneous meeting over an arbitrary hand gesture, or are we missing some history?

  • It was spontanious. I do not know this person and have not seen him since that day though I spoke with him briefly later. He continued to use his hand gestures and confrontational manner through the market and I wanted - rightly or wrongly - to keep him from being arrested.

    I believe this Native American poet was suffering from schizophrenia. But his story and question leaves room for hope - maybe for all of us.

    As Utah Phillips has said - "History - it did not go anywhere - did it!"

  • @richardhroth he was not suffering from schizophernia. he's suffering from to much fire water.Its sad i dont know why alot of our native americans are hooked on the bottle.Ive lived in northern AZ. lots of drunk navahos stumbling around town.Stayed in the Dakotas same shit different tribe.The buffalow are gone, the old ways are done, get your shit together and take care of your family. The gringos are not going back to europe anytime soon. Find a new way to live. Get off the system,be strong.

  • @demonprince70 you are not suffering from schizophernia. you're suffering from too much consumption. Its sad I dont know why alot of our lands immigrants are hooked on consumerism.Native's lived all over TurtleIsland for thousands of years. lots of new Immigrants stumbling around tearing up mother earth. Same shit everywhere. But, the buffalow are still there, the old ways still wait for our return. Get your shit together & take care of your people.Find a new way to live.Stop eating the planet.

  • you are not suffering from schizophernia. you're suffering from too much consumption. Its sad I dont know why alot of our lands immigrants are hooked on consumerism.Native's lived all over TurtleIsland for thousands of years. lots of new Immigrants stumbling around tearing up mother earth. Same shit everywhere. But, the buffalow are still there, the old ways still wait for our return. Get your shit together & take care of your people.Find a new way to live.Stop eating the planet.

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  • @phoenixofthewolf Praise which god?

  • @mung234 all the yahi are unnacounted for, the yana however survived. lets hope he is truly yahi, if so then praise god.

    

  • @iamjezuzchrist very wise thing to say. is he really yahi? one can only hope. his troubles would stem from the trauma of his past, being the nearly extinct. his mother's mother's mother would have been one of the last, if he is truly yahi, then thank you jesus. heal him. bring him peace, let him share the wisdom in his blood.

  • hope for the rebirth. If the yahi live, then nothing is out of reach...we must learn the sacred and follow hardship. If ishi means man, than man has not died. I hope he can speak yana, perhaps he is the descendant of the last ones. do not ask his name, for it is an insult and burn the body when it dies. by the way, i am NOT a hippie. just one who yearns for the wisdom, spurning modernity. a very yahi thing to say as well, FUCK THE MAIDU! I AM YAHI!!! If god smiles on me, I will met the last yahi

  • "Do you really think one person matters" is what

    they guy asked.Interesting question!

  • There is nothing "Yahi" about this incident. The idiot with his middle finger in the camera is a waste. This should not even have been posted.

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