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
Print Book, English, ©2000
Writers Club Press, San Jose [Calif.], ©2000