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Ishi in Two Worlds

• 1967 ----- color ----- 19 min ----- 16mm/vhs
• This is an honest documentary film of Ishi, the last survivor of the Yahi Indian tribe of California, who is believed to be the last person in North America to have spent most of his life leading a totally aboriginal existence. Combines rare still photographs and motion picture footage to trace the tribe's fight against the advance of the white man in the foot hills of Mt. Lassen. By 1911 Ishi was the sole survivor when he suddenly appeared outside the town of Oroville. He was taken to the Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, San Francisco, where he spent the rest of his life helping record the history of his people.
• Topics: (American Indian Studies)

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