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TNB->Yahi: Ishi: The last Yahi Indian
Posted on Tuesday, June 03 @ 22:14:48 PDT (22094 reads)
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KEYWORDS: Ishi last Yahi Indian history yahi tribe california indian tribe extinct California tribes native american book review Indian book review
AUTHOR: Jeff Baker
At the quiet center stood a man. He never said his real name -- to
say it aloud to strangers would be unthinkable for a California
Native American from the Yahi tribe -- so he became known as Ishi,
his people's word for man. He spent almost 40 years living in
isolation in the Mount Lassen foothills, one of the last dozen Yahi
who hid themselves to avoid the white men who nearly wiped out their
tribe.
When they were all gone but him, when Ishi was a tribe of one, he
walked out of his carefully concealed world and into Oroville,
Calif., where he was found near a slaughterhouse on Aug. 29, 1911.
The townspeople, unlike those who massacred thousands of Yana and
Yahi Indians 50 years earlier, were concerned about this frightened
man and baked him pies when they heard he wasn't eating.
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