This group discussion supports the production and sharing of works 

with a focus on grief associated with

genocide, also known as ecocide, within the collective suicidal tendency. 

In other words, why are we killing ourselves?

Painting: Ishi (WIP) by Denise Monaghan

Born around 1860, Ishi is the last known living member of the Yahi, a small tribe near Mount Lassen in northern California. Theodora Kroeber tells Ishi’s story in her book Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America (1961). In his September 2014 SFGATE article, one in a series devoted to San Francisco’s history, Gary Kamiya reflects on how Ishi (‘man’ in Yahi language) acquired a name. Ishi endured the climax of genocide in California.