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Ishi in Two Worlds is a biographical account of Ishi, the last known member of the Yahi Native American people. Written by American author Theodora Kroeber , it was first published in 1961. Ishi had been found alone and starving outside Oroville, California , in 1911.
Ishi (c. 1861 – March 25, 1916) was the last known member of the Native American Yahi people from the present-day state of California in the United States.The rest of the Yahi (as well as many members of their parent tribe, the Yana) were killed in the California genocide in the 19th century.
Ishi in 1914. Ishi: The Last of His Tribe (1978) is a made-for-television biopic based on the book Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber. The book relates the experiences of her husband Alfred L. Kroeber, who made friends with Ishi, thought to be the last of his people, the Yahi tribe. [1] The telecast aired first on NBC on December 20, 1978.
The Last of His Tribe is a 1992 American made-for-television drama film based on the book Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber which relates the experiences of her husband Alfred L. Kroeber who made friends with Ishi, thought to be the last of his people, the Yahi tribe. Jon Voight stars as Kroeber and Graham Greene as Ishi. [1] Harry Hook ...
Ishi in Two Worlds became an immediate success and established Kroeber's reputation for anthropological writing. [33] Described as a "modern classic", it was translated into nine languages [33] and remained in print as of 2015. [37] It sold half a million copies by 1976 [7] and a million copies by 2001. [29]
Among her works was Ishi in Two Worlds (1961), a biographical volume about Ishi, an Indigenous American who had been studied by Alfred Kroeber. Ishi was the last known member of the Yahi tribe after the rest of its members died or (mostly) were killed by white colonizers. [8] [10] [11]
Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America. University of California Press, Berkeley. Sapir, Edward (1910). "Yana Texts", University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 1, no. 9. Berkeley: University Press.
[4] [6] In 1959 she published The Inland Whale, a retelling of California Native American legends, [4] Three years later she published Ishi in Two Worlds, a biography of Ishi, the last of the Yahi people, which became her best known work. [4] She also edited a collection of Alfred's essays, titled An Anthropologist Looks at History (1963). [2]