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An homage to Ishi, the last survivor of the Yahi - a tribe of Native Americans who lived in the foothills of Mt. Lassen (Waganupa) in California. He lived forty years in hiding before entering the white man's world in 1911. Ishi lived his last 5 years at the Museum of Anthropology in San Francisco, where he graciously shared his heart and his people's ways with the same culture that had ruthlessly annihilated his entire people.

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Waganupa
Mountain of fire
Land of the Yahi
Waganupa
So long, Waganupa

Ishi was the only man
The last Yahi breathing
A silent ghost before the hunter’s hand
Floating out among the dead

A stone age man behind glass
In the halls of the civilized
Arrowheads and blessings cast
On anyone who met his eye

Their spirits spiraled up
When they died
And they rise
Through a hole in the sky
Now you go free
Untied

Waganupa
Mountain of fire
Blood of the Yahi
Waganupa
So long, Waganupa

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from Planet Solitaire, released May 22, 2014
WS : guitar and vocals

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Walter Strauss Occidental, California

This Californian guitar maestro’s songs are full of the groove and fire of an African dance party, the dynamics & textures of a string orchestra, and the back-porch soul of American roots music.

Walter performs globally, solo and in crosscultural collaborations, at venues as diverse as the Celtic Connections festival in Scotland, Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, CA, and Le Diplomat in Bamako, Mali.
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