Ishi, in turn, taught them what he could of his language and culture, much to their mutual delight. He didn't, though, but was instead befriended by two anthropologists, one who would later become Theodora Kroeber's husband, and was moved in to rooms at the museum they worked at, where they helped him to live a relatively independent life under drastically different circumstances than he had been living under for 50 years.
It is written by renowned SFF author Ursula K Le Guin's mother, Theodora Kroeber, who wrote an unsentimental and fact driven account and biography of Ishi, the last surviving Yahi indian who wandered into a white town in 1911, prepared to die. I can completely understand why it changed people's views o native Americans when it came out in 1961. This was one of the most educating books I've ever read. Karl Kroeber adds an informative tribute to the text, describing how the book came to be written and how Theodora Kroeber's approach to the project was a product of both her era and her special personal insight and empathy. Waterman and lived there the rest of his life under the care and protection of Alfred Kroeber and the staff of the University of California's Museum of Anthropology. Finally identified as a Yahi by an anthropologist, Ishi was brought to San Francisco by Professor T. Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and terrified of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughter house near Oroville, California. Now recent advances in technology make it possible to return to print the 1976 deluxe edition, filled with plates and historic photographs that enhance Ishi's story and bring it to life.
For more than forty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography has captivated readers. The life story of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian, lone survivor of an exterminated tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology.
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