Ishi, the last Yahi

Author

Jed Riffe

Call Number

• DVD 921 I794I (CEN)

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Performers

Narrated by Linda Hunt.

Publication Information

[Newton, N.J.] : Shanachie Entertainment Corp., [2002]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Chronicles the story of Ishi, the last survivor of the Yahi tribe following extensive massacres of Native Americans in California in the 1860s and 1870s.

Notes

"This video is an expanded version of the program seen on The American experience broadcast"--Container.

Based on original research by Jed Riffe and the book Ishi, the last Yahi, edited by Robert F. Heizer and Theodora Kroeber, published by the University of California Press.

Originally broadcast on PBS as an episode of The American experience in 1992.

Contents

• Wild man in Oroville
• Uncontaminated aborigine
• Ishi meets Caruso
• 50 cents a scalp
• Ishi on exhibition
• Yahi massacres
• Visiting Ishi's homeland
• Ishi's last hiding place
• Panama Pacific exhibition
• Hard work and tuberculosis.