Science: Last of the Kitsai

The only person who can speak fluent Kitsai, an American Indian language which anthropologists consider the key to a considerable part of Amerind history. is a woman named Kai Kai who lives near Anadarko, Okla. Kai Kai, 83, pretends that she is dull and sullen. That is to protect her from importunate people. Really she is shrewd, intelligent, full of energy. Last week she knew that Anthropology was making a fuss about her solitary survival, that Dr. Alexander Lesser, financed by the Committee on Research in Native American Languages, was transcribing & translating...

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