But before that—I never know who knows what
about this chunk of Manifest Destiny—
I should say that
Ishi was Yahi;
The last “wild” Native North American;
Caught
was used often in the old accounts,
or other words to that effect.
After his peoples’ genocide, a word I don’t use lightly,
He was studied by doctors at Berkeley, California,
until after his death
from tuberculosis, or consumption—the disease
that settled The West,
Along with so many others—
Small pox, various fevers, syphilis; the upper hand:
Your Everything
Accurate About
Weight Your
Said Leaving.
