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The life story of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian, lone survivor of an exterminated tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and terrified of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughterhouse near Oroville, California. Finally identified as a Yahi by an anthropologist, Ishi was brought to San Francisco...
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Katahdin Productions
Publication Date
2016.
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English
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A short documentary about Ishi, billed in 1911 as the "last wild Indian" when he wandered out of the woods in Oroville, CA, and became a national sensation. When Ishi died, his brain was removed and sent to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Eighty years later, his descendants in California fight to have his remains repatriated to his ancestral home. Contrary to the master narrative that Indians would die off, the film shows how Native...
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Publisher
Parnassus Press
Publication Date
[1964]
Language
English
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The old Yahi World and the new world of the white man as seen by Ishi, last survivor of his people.
The compelling, partially fictionalized story depicting the California Yahi Native American world as seen by Ishi, the last of his tribe, who leaves his primitive life in 1911 and enters the modern world.
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