American Experience

Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian

E20    Dec 2, 1992    55m    TV-PG
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When "Ishi," the last surviving member of a small Indian tribe, walked into the small California town of Oroville in 1911, he became a media curiosity and scientific "specimen." The San Francisco Museum built a Yahi house where audiences could watch Ishi make arrowheads and shoot bows. Ishi went to the theater and received invitations of marriage. But contact would bring him terrible physical and psychological consequences.
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  • Linda HuntNarrator (voice)

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