Ishi was literally a Stone Age man, the last of a "lost" tribe, when in 1911 he stumbled into 20th century California. In the following five years thousands of visitors watched him chip arrowheads, shape bows and make fire in the halls of the museum where he made his home. 
This book is like an archaeologist's reconstruction of a bead necklace from which some pieces are scattered. Theodora Kroeber puts together two necklaces: first, the story of a tribe that survived undisturbed for hundreds of years. The second necklace is the story of Ishi's adjustment to the trolley-world of San Francisco--proof, as the author says, that Stone Age man and modern man are essentially alike. 
"The warmth and understanding with which Ishi's story is told gives this book its special quality. It can be called one of the great American stories." --Lewis Gannett

Ishi In 2 Worlds

Biographies & Memoirs

Theodora Kroeber

Community & Culture

University of California Press

Ishi, Last of His Tribe (Puffin Books)

Children's Books

Puffin Books

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Ishi Last of His Tribe

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

BANTAM BOOKS

Ishi, Last of His Tribe

Story of the lone survivor of the Yahi American Indian Tribe in California.

Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group

Nine tales, selected and retold here by anthropologist and author Theodora Kroeber for the adult general-interest reader. The new foreword by her son, Karl Kroeber, provides context about the author's methods and describes his own personal connection to the stories themselves.

Inland Whale: Nine Stories Retold from California Indian Legends

Peter Smith Pub

Drawn from life: California Indians in pen and brush

Robert F. Heizer

Albert B. Elsasser

Ballena Press

Almost Ancestors: The First Californians

Large art photographs and portraits of Native Americans of California. Some text accompanies the stunning images.

Brick House Pub. Co.

One morning in 1911, Ishi was found, nearly starving, in the corral of a slaughter house in California. He was eventually identified by an anthropologist as the last survivor of the exterminated Yahi Indian tribe.

Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America (Library Edition)

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

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