![]() ![]() His language was foreign to all, even other Indians could not understand him. A sheriff dispatched to deal with the “wild man” did not know what to do and so they locked him up. Ishi was discovered outside a slaughterhouse in 1911. In the second part we get to learn more about Ishim and follow him through modern civilization. In the first part of the book, we learn about Indian history in California, Indian geography, culture, languages, and about the confrontation between Indians and Californians during the gold rush, and how the Indian tribe was shattered. The book follows the story of Ishi from when he was discovered outside a slaughterhouse, his life in the museum amongst modern civilization, and through his death by Tuberculosis in 1915. ![]() ![]() In the book “Ishi in Two Worlds”, by Theodora Kroeber, the author brings us the story of Ishi, last survivor of the Indian “Yahi” tribe. ![]()
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