![]() In middle age, he was the lone survivor of his tribe. How Ishi and his tiny entourage lived and dwindled in 40 years of hiding is the inspiration for this sensitive biography, based on the author's scrupulous research for the well‐known adult anthropological study, “Ishi in Two Worlds.” Our world discovered Ishi - or rather he it - in 1911, when he stumbled, exhausted and starving, into the mining town of Oroville, Calif. ![]() The seven remaining Yahi Indians-the boy Ishi among them-began a fugitive life. Ishi's own father had been killed by a firestick in a sweeping massacre which destroyed almost all of the Yahi nation. But Grandfather told stories of what it had been like before, when thousands of the People still hunted and fished, free from fear of the murderous firesticks. ISHI was too young to remember when the white men first came, seeking the “bright dust” of their creeks, and killing the People. ![]()
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