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| Browning, Montana |
1911: Ishi, the last speaker of Yana, who has miraculously survived the extermination of the rest of his people, is donated [sic] by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the University of California Anthropology Museum.
1930: The first conference on Plains Indian Sign begins in Browning, Montana, attracting members from 14 different tribes. This is probably the world’s first conference on a pidgin language.
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