Tiburon means "shark" and this island is a sacred place for the Seri. I am pretty sure that there are also Seri in Sonora along the coast of the Gulf of California. 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 01:01:01 EDT > >In a message dated 9/8/2002 11:03:33 PM Central Daylight Time, >ElkDremr@aol.com writes: > > > > Halito John > > There is a tribe here in Calif. Called the Sereno could that be the >same > > one? > > > >Elk Dreamer, > > I don't think so. The name was very specific in its sound and to >me >it was spelt Seri. George Ann previously wrote that there are many Seri >all >over California but suffer dilution of their heritage from tourists and >pollution but none of that seems to apply to what was in the film which I >found to be very troubling, especially the part that featured the eldest >member of the tribe who was the repository of all the tribe's history and >who >had his eyes plucked out and his tongue cut off according to the film >makers. > You could see him being led around by a string that he held on to and he >didn't look like he had any eyes. And apparently this was a decision of >the >leaders of the tribe to do this to the old man. Again, I found it sad. > The only reference points, geographically, in the film were Baja >California, and an island off of Baja California called Tiburon Island. > > John Craven > New Orleans > > >==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== >Need more CHOCTAW information?? Try Rusty Lang's website at >http://www.choctaw-web.com for censuses, genealogy lessons, articles, etc. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com