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The last Yahi : a novel about Ishi : a novel based on the last stone age Yahi who gave himself up to civilization at a slaughterhouse in Oroville, California, on August 29, 1911, and became known to the world as Ishi

On August 29, 1911, a barefoot, half-starved, gaunt Indian gave himself up to White civilization at slaughterhouse in Oroville, CA. We never learned his name, but we soon learned of his tragedy: mainly that he was the last member of his tribe, the Yahi. He became known as Ishi

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