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The life story of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian, lone survivor of an exterminated tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than forty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography ha
In 1911, a man was found, starving, in the corral of a slaughterhouse in California. He was eventually identified by an anthropologist as the last survivor of the exterminated Yahi Indian tribe. His n
OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLDThe 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 forty years, Theodora Kroebe
