These were the happy days. The salad days, as they say. —H.I. McDonnough, Raising Arizona I started working here in 1995, thanks in large part to features editor Judith Moore. She had arrived over a …
From Let's Talk Tiapa Aa. “There is no generic word for ‘rabbit.’ You have a word for a jackrabbit, a cottontail, and a brush rabbit."
Posted January 30, 1997
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Best of 50 years of Reader stories
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One Thousand Survivors On the shores of the dry lakebed known as the Laguna Salada, about 250 Cucapa reside. Perhaps 50 — Kiliwa Indians live in an area known as Arroyo de Leon at the …
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Best Reader stories from 1997
Childhood's End: Dr. Spock at 94 53-year-old Morgan, Dr. Spock’s second wife, has been relentless and inventive in her search for ways to keep her husband youthful and healthy. For his 75th birthday, for example, …
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Margaret Langdon hunts down Kumeyaay native tongues
“In our culture, social interaction depends on talking. All the time. But when you walk into an Indian community, it’s not that they don’t talk, but there are long periods where nobody says anything. Where nothing happens.”
January 30, 1997