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ISHI, Last of His Tribe
ISHI Last of His Tribe
Author: Theodora Kroeber
Ishi is a story from history. Ishi was an American Indian born in 1861 or 1862. His tribe was the Yana. His parents belonged to the southernmost of the Yana who called themselves the Yahi. — The Yana lived in the western foothills of Mt. Lassen in northern California. — In 1911 Ishi was discovered in the corral of a slaughterhouse near Oroville,...  more »
ISBN: 277381
Publication Date: 1964
Pages: 207
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Publisher: Parnassus Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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The haunting true story of the sole survivor of a lost civilization..."A window through which we can experience the spiritual symmetries of the Indian way."

In the early 1900s, a small band of California Indians of the Yahi tribe resisted the fate that had all but wiped out their people - violent death at the hands of the invading white man. Throughtout their ordeal and their final realization that they could survive only by becoming a hidden people, this tiny group held to the gentle moral and religious code of their ancestors. In time, one by one of the tribe died, until there remained a single survivor - the man who became known as Ishi.
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The haunting true story of the sole survivor of a lost civilization...
In the early 1900s a small band of California Indiants of the Yahi tribe resisted the fate that had all but wiped them out... white man. In time, one by one of the tribe died until only one remained: Ishi.


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