Juana Maria | The Lone Woman of San Nicolas

This week on the podcast Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling discuss Juana Maria, better known to history as the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island. Juana Maria was a Native Californian woman who was the last surviving member of her tribe, the Nicoleño. She lived alone on San Nicolas Island off the coast of Alta California from 1835 until her removal from the island in 1853. Scott O'Dell's award-winning children's novel Island of the Blue Dolphins was inspired by her story. She was the last native speaker of the Nicoleño language.  Support the pod: patreon.com/illrepute More about the pod: http://ILLREPUTEPODCAST.COM Credits: Compiled by Sovereign Syre Hosted by Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling Produced by Joshua Anderson Sources:  https://web.archive.org/web/20131113111647/https://www.afognak.com/media/Afognak%20Alutiiq%20History%20Benefits%2007-22-08_letter.pdf http://www.afognak.org/heritage/history/history-intro.php?src=timeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awa%27uq_Massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleuts http://newspapers.com https://daily.jstor.org/juana-maria-blue-dolphins/ https://daily.jstor.org/juana-maria-blue-dolphins/ https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/special-reports/outdoors/2016/10/08/researchers-discover-nicoleno-survivors/91732008/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Gabriel_Arc%C3%A1ngel https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/special-reports/outdoors/2018/04/19/researchers-uncover-new-twist-165-year-old-story-lone-woman-life-island/513210002/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Nidever https://lonewoman.ischool.illinois.edu/lonewoman/home/118 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_the_Blue_Dolphins https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/11/im-horrified-after-revisiting-my-favorite-book-from-elementary-school/ https://www.nps.gov/subjects/islandofthebluedolphins/follow.htm https://www.nps.gov/subjects/islandofthebluedolphins/upload/JCGBA_36-1_Morris-etal_final.pdf https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2016/06/a-critical-look-at-odells-island-of.html https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-myth-of-the-vanishing-indian