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Book Ishi

    Book Details:
  • Author : Theodore Kroeber
  • Publisher : Turtleback Books
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN : 9780808588153
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Ishi written by Theodore Kroeber and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old Yahi World and the new world of the white man as seen by Ishi, last survivor of his people.

Book Ishi the Last Yahi

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  • Author : Robert F. Heizer
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN : 9780520043664
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Ishi the Last Yahi written by Robert F. Heizer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction by Theodora Kroeber, Editor: The number of documents having to do with Ishi is finite. For the reader who wishes to know something of the sources from which the story flows, there are reproduced here the principal out-of-print and most inaccessible primary materials on Ishi and the Yahi Indians. Of first importance are monographs on Ishi, his people, his languages, his medical history, whose authors are Professors Thomas T. Waterman, Alfred L. Kroeber, Edward Sapir, and Saxton T. Pope, M.D. Most of these monographs are here reprinted in full. Next in interest and importance are the books of reminiscences concerning the Yahi Indians written by white settlers in or adjacent to Yahi country in the years following closely upon the gold rush. These are usually in small editions, long out of print. Two, those written by Carson and R. A. Anderson, are reprinted in full; the others, only those parts having to do with Ishi and the Yahi. There are letters bearing on our subject, newspaper accounts, and pictures, of which we include significant examples. There are as well books and articles having to do only in part with Ishi and his people. We reprint only those parts. Beyond these essential primary materials, the editors made hard choices to keep the number of pages realistic. Readers with areas of special interest will regret some of our exclusions among the secondary but often fascinating accounts: of archaeological findings in the Yahi homel∧ of linguistic quirks and grammatical technicalities--a large literature, difficult for the uninitiate; of medical history when it adds nothing to our understanding of the man Ishi. Our order of presentation is chronological, beginning with the background materials, then going to Ishi's first entry into the outside world, then to his years at the museum, and, finally, to his death. We have not included the occasional newspaper stories of still-living Yahi Indians supposed to have been seen or heard in the Yahi hills and caves after Ishi's departure, since none were ever substantiated. When in 1914 Ishi returned to his old home for a few weeks with Waterman, Kroeber, Pope, and Pope's son, Saxton, Jr., he found the land, the caves, and the village sites as he had left them.

Book Ishi in Two Worlds

Download or read book Ishi in Two Worlds written by Theodora Kroeber and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: 1961. With new foreword.

Book Ishi s Brain  In Search of Americas Last  Wild  Indian

Download or read book Ishi s Brain In Search of Americas Last Wild Indian written by Orin Starn and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-06-17 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mountains of California to a forgotten steel vat at the Smithsonian, this "eloquent and soul-searching book" (Lit) is "a compelling account of one of American anthropology's strangest, saddest chapters" (Archaeology). After the Yahi were massacred in the mid-nineteenth century, Ishi survived alone for decades in the mountains of northern California, wearing skins and hunting with bow and arrow. His capture in 1911 made him a national sensation; anthropologist Alfred Kroeber declared him the world's most "uncivilized" man and made Ishi a living exhibit in his museum. Thousands came to see the displaced Indian before his death, of tuberculosis. Ishi's Brain follows Orin Starn's gripping quest for the remains of the last of the Yahi.

Book Ishi

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  • Author : David R. Collins
  • Publisher : Morgan Reynolds Publishing
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9781883846541
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Ishi written by David R. Collins and published by Morgan Reynolds Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last member of the Yahi tribe, Ishi fascinated and informed anthropologists and lay people alike.

Book Yahi Archery

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  • Author : Saxton Temple Pope
  • Publisher : Berkeley : University of California Press
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 92 pages

Download or read book Yahi Archery written by Saxton Temple Pope and published by Berkeley : University of California Press. This book was released on 1918 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ishi in Three Centuries

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  • Author : Karl Kroeber
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803227576
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book Ishi in Three Centuries written by Karl Kroeber and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ishi in Three Centuries brings together a range of insightful and unsettling perspectives and the latest research to enrich and personalize our understanding of one of the most famous Native Americans of the modern era?Ishi, the last Yahi. After decades of concealment from genocidal attacks on his people in California, Ishi (ca. 1860?1916) came out of hiding in 1911 and lived the last five years of his life in the University of California Anthropological Museum in San Francisco. ø Contributors to this volume illuminate Ishi the person, his relationship to anthropologist A. L. Kroeber and others, his Yahi world, and his enduring and evolving legacy for the twenty-first century. Ishi in Three Centuries features recent analytic translations of Ishi?s stories, new information on his language, craft skills, and his personal life in San Francisco, with reminiscences of those who knew him and A. L. Kroeber. Multiple sides of the repatriation controversy are showcased and given equal weight. Especially valuable are discussions by Native American writers and artists, including Gerald Vizenor, Louis Owens, and Frank Tuttle, of how Ishi continues to inspire the creative imagination of American Indians.

Book Earth Abides

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  • Author : George R. Stewart
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 1993-12
  • ISBN : 0899683703
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book Earth Abides written by George R. Stewart and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ishi s Tale of Lizard

Download or read book Ishi s Tale of Lizard written by and published by Sunburst. This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lizard's work of making arrows is interrupted when Long-Tailed Lizard goes to get him more foreshaft wood and is eaten by Grizzly Bear.

Book The Truth about Stories

Download or read book The Truth about Stories written by Thomas King and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.

Book Hunting with the Bow and Arrow

Download or read book Hunting with the Bow and Arrow written by Saxton T. Pope and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Download or read book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee written by Dee Brown and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “fascinating” #1 New York Times bestseller that awakened the world to the destruction of American Indians in the nineteenth-century West (The Wall Street Journal). First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses on the betrayals, battles, and massacres suffered by American Indians between 1860 and 1890. He tells of the many tribes and their renowned chiefs—from Geronimo to Red Cloud, Sitting Bull to Crazy Horse—who struggled to combat the destruction of their people and culture. Forcefully written and meticulously researched, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee inspired a generation to take a second look at how the West was won. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Book Ishi in Two Worlds  50th Anniversary Edition

Download or read book Ishi in Two Worlds 50th Anniversary Edition written by Theodora Kroeber and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than fifty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography has been sharing this tragic and absorbing drama with readers all over the world. 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 brought to San Francisco by Professor T. T. Waterman and lived there the rest of his life under the care and protection of Alfred Kroeber and the staff of the University of California's Museum of Anthropology.

Book Who Owns Native Culture

Download or read book Who Owns Native Culture written by Michael F. Brown and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Documents the efforts of indigenous peoples to redefine heritage as a protected resource. Michael Brown takes readers into settings where native peoples defend what they consider to be their cultural property ... By focusing on the complexity of actual cases, Brown casts light on indigenous grievances in diverse fields ... He finds both genuine injustice and, among advocates for native peoples, a troubling tendency to mimic the privatizing logic of major corporations"--Jacket.

Book Ishi  Last of His Tribe

Download or read book Ishi Last of His Tribe written by Theodora Kroeber and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Throughout 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.

Book The Yana Indians

Download or read book The Yana Indians written by Thomas Talbot Waterman and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ishi s Return Home

Download or read book Ishi s Return Home written by Richard Burrill and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ishi's Return Home: The 1914 Anthropological Expedition Story, 2014, is the "expanded" Ishi report that renowned anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber never published in his lifetime. All ten original sketch maps and daily field note records were retrieved from the Bancroft Library and reorganized as part of an engaging Ishi narrative. Returning with Ishi to his old haunts on Deer Creek and Mill Creek is truly a unique, adventure story. Will Ishi be able to deal with his demons and ghosts and the great sadness and trials of his recent past? Includes several rare and beguiling 1914 photographs by Kroeber and Saxton Pope of Ishi in his remote, ancestral homeland. Learn some of the secret ways Ishi and four others of his tiny band of Yahi-Yana survived, while staying "invisible," for twenty-two years longer than Geronimo's band of Apaches.