![]() Rather, recently unearthed testimony from Native Californians who spoke to the Lone Woman shows that she voluntarily stayed on the island after her son refused to board the departing ship-and that they lived together on the island until, as an adult, he was attacked by a shark or killer whale off the island’s coast and died. She was not the last of the Nicoleños her people did not seem to have fled the island at the behest of Catholic missionaries after the massacre by Russian hunters she was able to communicate with other Native Californians and, most intriguingly, she was not alone on San Nicolas at all. Editor’s note: Since this article’s publication in early 2016, researchers have published evidence that nearly every facet of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island’s story-a story accepted for more than a century after her life and death-was wrong. ![]()
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