Ishi (1860? - March 25, 1916) was the name given to the last member of the Yahi tribe of California, and means man in the Yahi language. He left the wild on August 29, 1911 near Oroville, California, after leaving his ancestral homeland in the foothills near Lassen Peak. Ishi is believed to be the last Native American to have lived completely outside the European-American culture. His story was popularized in a book by Theodora Kroeber, wife of Alfred L. Kroeber, who worked with her husband's notes and comments to create the story of a man she had never met. The book, Ishi in Two Worlds, was published after Alfred Kroeber's death in 1960.
External links
UCSF site about Ishi: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/sc/hist/ishi
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