As I tell my students, mind-reading is not part of my job description. However, there is an excellent book written by a fellow from Tucson who has lived and worked with the Seri. Their handicrafts are sold all over northern Mexico and in Arizona. I believe that some of the crafts people have a web page. You might do an on-line search and get some additional information. George Ann >From: JohnnyMikeCraven@aol.com >Reply-To: CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com >To: CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [CHOCTAW-SE] The Legend of the Seri Indian Nation >Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 00:29:15 EDT > >In a message dated 9/8/2002 10:06:25 AM Central Daylight Time, >wood_owl@hotmail.com writes: > > > > > > > > Well, hmm, I guess someone forgot to tell the Seri themselves because >they > > are alive and well in Baja California (& Sonora). They live all up and >down > > the coasts, particularly along the coasts of the Gulf of California. > > However, due to increasing numbers of tourists and pollution of the >oceans, > > their language and culture has been severely eroded. > > > > George Ann > > > >George Ann, > > As I said, the film left no answer as to what happened to these >people >but when the film was shot, there were no tourists there except for the >film >crew and they had no problems with pollution that would cause them to do >some >of the things that they did in the film. These people were very remote >from >the outside world for much of their existence. Again it was shown on >Turner >Classic Movie channel on Saturday morning. If they are doing fine, why >didn't Ted Turner include a follow-up to this piece instead of leaving it >hang as he did? > > John Craven > New Orleans > > >==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== > To Unsubscribe: >Send msg. to CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L-request@rootsweb.com >Put "one" word in "body" of message:... "unsubscribe" without the quotes >Nothing in the subject line... Turn off signatures....... _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com