Ishi
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- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Social Science
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Anthropology, Anthropologists
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American History 1878-1900, American Indian History
Article abstract: After all his fellow Yahi people in Northern California had died off or been killed, Ishi became known throughout America as the “last wild Indian.”
In 1911, when the man known as Ishi appeared in the corral of a slaughterhouse near Oroville, in Northern California, the Yahi were all thought to have been annihilated many years before. After resisting the invasion of their territory, the Yahi were hunted down and massacred by settlers in the latter part of the nineteenth century. During the 1890's, Ishi and the few remaining members of his...
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