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viii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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| Summary |
Contains documents concerning the life of Ishi, the last Yana Indian. |
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[Part 1] Before Ishi -- 1. Earliest notices of the Yahi (1850) -- 2. Army correspondence on the Yana and Yahi (1862-1865) -- 3. Newspaper accounts of fighting with the Yahi (1862) -- 4. Adjutant-General Kibbe's report (1860) -- 5. Hi good and the "Mill Creeks" / H.H. Sauber (1859) -- 6. Captured by the Mill Creek Indians / a thankful Carson (1863) -- 7. Fighting the Mill Creeks / R.A. Anderson (1857-1865) -- 8. The last of the Mill Creeks / Sim Moak (1862-1870) -- 9. The Yanas / Jeremiah Curtin (1864) -- 10. The Koḿ-bo (Yahi) / Stephen Powers (1874) -- 11. Lost Indian tribe in Tehama wilds / San Francisco Call (March 19, 1911) -- 12. "Lost Indians" easily traced / John Rodney Gleeson (March 26, 1911) -- 13. Indians in the forest / Lassen Magazine (May 1911) -- 14. The elusive Mill Creeks / A.L. Kroeber (August 1911) -- [Part 2] Ishi enters civilization -- 1. Newspaper accounts of Ishi's capture / Oroville Register (August 29, 30, and 31, 1911) -- 2. Tribe's dirge chanted by savage / San Francisco Examiner (August 31, 1911) -- 3. Indian enigma is study for scientists / Mary Ashe Miller (September 6, 1911) -- 4. Untainted life revealed by aborigine / Philip H. Kinsley (September 6, 1911) -- 5. Tribe survivor counts to five, but that's all / San Francisco Call (September 7, 1911) -- 6. Ishi tells tale of wood duck for 6 hours / San Francisco Examiner (September 7, 1911) -- 7. Ishi, the last aboriginal savage in America, finds enchantment in a Vaudeville show / Grant Wallace (October 8, 1911) -- 8. It's all too much for Ishi, says the scientist / A.L. Kroeber (October 8, 1911) -- 9. The only man in America who knows no Christmas: Ishi / A.L. Kroeber (December 17, 1911) -- [Part 3] Ishi among the anthropologists -- 1. Ishi, the last aborigine / A.L. Kroeber (July 1912) -- 2. The last wild tribe of California / T.T. Waterman (March 1915) -- 3. The Yana Indians / T.T. Waterman (1918) -- 4. The Yana and Yahi / A.L. Kroeber (1925) -- 5. Flint working by Ishi / Nels C. Nelson (1916) -- 6. Yahi archery / Saxton T. Pope (1918) -- 7. Analysis of a Yahi text / Edward Sapir (1923) -- 8. The songs of Ishi / Bruno Netti (July 1965) -- 9. Yahi place names / Martin A. Baumhoff (1957) -- [Part 4] Ishi's death -- 1. Characteristics of Ishi / Saxton T. Pope (1920) -- 2. Correspondence about Ishi (1915-1916) -- 3. Ishi's funeral / San Mateo Labor Index (March 30, 1916) -- 4. Conclusion / Saxton T. Pope (1920) -- 5. Ishi's death: a Chico commentary / Chico Record (March 28, 1916). |
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Ishi, -1916.
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Yana Indians -- Biography.
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Yana Indians.
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| Added Author |
Heizer, Robert F. (Robert Fleming), 1915-1979.
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Kroeber, Theodora.
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| ISBN |
9780520032965 |
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0520032969 |
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9780520043664 (pbk.) |
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0520043669 (pbk.) |
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0520032959 |
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