Ishi in two worlds; a biography of the last wild Indian in North America
Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and with terror of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughter house near Oroville, California. Finally identified as an Indian by an anthropologist, Ishi was brou...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1961
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| Edition: | Deluxe illustrated ed |
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Table of Contents:
- Ishi the Yahi. Outside the slaughter house
- Copper-colored people on a golden land
- A living people
- A dying people
- Episodes in extermination
- The long concealment
- The Yahi disappear
- Mister Ishi. Outside the jail
- Ishi's new world
- Life in a museum
- The craftsman
- The brightest year
- Death in a museum
- pt. 1. Ishi the Yahi : Outside the slaughter house ; Copper-colored people on a golden land ; A living people ; A dying people ; Episodes in extermination ; The long concealment ; The Yahi disappear
- pt. 2. Mister Ishi : Outside the jail ; Ishi's new world ; Life in a museum ; The craftsman ; The brightest year ; Death in a museum