The Last of His Tribe

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 19, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 37.

The Last of His Tribe

The Last of His Tribe.—An Indian has been captured near Oroville, California, while attempting to steal some meat, who is said to be the very last of the Deer Creek tribe. He speaks no language which can be understood or connected with that of any other Indian tribe. The ethnologists of the university of the State have him now in charge, and are endeavoring to learn all they can concerning his tribe and language. He is thought to be about fifty years old; had never come in connection with civilization in any way. The university men feel that he is as much of an aborigine as tho he had been living 100 or 150 years ago. He is without trace or taint of civilization.