Ishi, Last of His Tribe (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Theodora Kroeber
- First Published: 1964
- Time of Work: 1875–1916
- Setting: The southern Cascades of Northern California and San Francisco
- Principal Characters: Ishi, Tushi, Timawi, Majapa, Kuwi, Maliwal
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Nature, California, West, U.S., Native Americans or American Indians, Multiculturalism, Lifestyles, Loneliness, Anthropology or anthropologists, Pacific Northwest, Biography, Museums
- Locales: San Francisco, CA
Form and Content
In Ishi, Last of His Tribe, Theodora Kroeber tells the remarkable story of the last member of the Yahi. In 1911, having been completely alone for many months, Ishi walked from his Stone Age existence in the Northern California mountains into twentieth century American life.
Adopting Ishi’s point of view, Kroeber divides her account into four sections, beginning when Ishi was thirteen and one of only seven surviving Yahi. Since his infancy, his people had been hiding from the saldu (the whites) and their guns, or firesticks. The first...
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