![]() A reclusive group of hunter-gatherers, the Yahi were adversely affected by the California Gold Rush. The Yahi were the southernmost group of the Native American Yana people, who lived in Northern California. Theodora Kroeber never met Ishi but based her books on her husband’s notes. Alfred Kroeber worked with Ishi, studying his culture and becoming his friend. Kroeber’s second husband, Alfred Louis Kroeber, was Director of the UC Berkeley Museum of Anthropology where Ishi came to live in 1911. Kroeber tells the “story from history” of Ishi, the final surviving member of the Native American Yahi people, from his boyhood in the hidden village of Tuliyani, to his death in 1916. The book is a children’s version of Kroeber’s 1961 title, Ishi in Two Worlds. ![]() Published in 1964, Ishi, the Last of His Tribe is a biographical narrative written by American author and anthropologist Theodora Kroeber. ![]()
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