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NALI '94 & Kawaiisu InfoCAVEMAN -- San Bernardino, Calif. USA (cjcoker@CSUPOMONA.EDU)Mon, 31 Oct 1994 15:16:05 -0800
I am going to the Native American Language Issues Institute's 14th Annual Conference in Glorieta, New Mexico, next week. Is anybody else going? In the flyer announcing the conference, they mention Kawaiisu as being an endangered language in the United States. I may be wrong about this, but I've always thought the Kawaiisu as a people have been extinct (or whatever term is proper) for at least 100 years, and I think more. (The Kawaiisu were from the Tehachapi/Mojave area of the Mojave Desert in Southern California.) Am I mistaken about this? Are there still Kawaiisu people around? Are there still speakers of the language? Serrano is listed also. So far as I know, there is ONE remaining speaker of Serrano -- I think that qualifies as endagered. Any comments or observations about any of the above would be welcome: 1) any knowledge about the conference, as I never been to this one before, 2) anything on any subject about the Kawaiisu, and 3) anything on any subject about the Serrano. Chuck Coker CJCoker@CSUPomona.Edu P.S.: I travel by motorcycle. Any one know how deep the snow gets between Barstow, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico on I-40? Do I need to worry about snow at all yet? Alternative routes might include I-10 from San Bernardino, California to (almost) El Paso, Texas, then I-25 north to Santa Fe; or maybe even D-2 across Mexico, from Tijuana, Baja California, to Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua (El Paso, Texas, US), then north on I-25. Any suggestions? (They don't make snow chains for motorcycles.) ============================================================================== There have been no dragons in my life, only small spiders and stepping in gum. I could have coped with the dragons. Anonymous (but wise) ==============================================================================
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