| LC control no. | n 79077431 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ishi, -1916 |
| Variant(s) | Ishi, d. 1916 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1862~ |
| Death date | 1916-03-25 |
| Place of birth | Butte County (Calif.) |
| Place of death | San Francisco (Calif.) |
| Found in | Goldstein, M. A sounding of sources [SR] p2008: insert (Ishi; d. Mar. 25, 1916, Berkeley, Calif.; last surviving member of the Yahi tribe) Kroeber, T. Ishi in two worlds, 1961: t.p. (Ishi) p. 233 (d. Mar. 25, 1916) Bio. and geneal. master index on GaleNet, Oct. 20, 2008 (Ishi, 1860?-1916 [6 sources]; Ishi, 1861?- [1]; Ishi, 1861?-1916 [4]; Ishi, 1862?-1916 [6]; Ishi, d. 1916 [1]; Ishi [4]) Johansen, Bruce E. Encyclopedia of Native American biography, 1997: pages 180-181 (Ishi; Yahi/Yana, circa 1862-1916. Homeland in the mountainous region of Butte County, California. White settlers moved into the region and in 1868 killed about three-fourths of his tribe, leaving about a dozen survivors, incuding six-year-old Ishi. Lived in hiding with those supposed to be his mother, father, and sister until surveyors found them and the family fled. His sister and father died while fleeing and his mother died soon after. Lived from 1908-1922 alone in the wild, then, starving, he arrived in Oroville, California where he was put in jail for a few days. While there, Alfred Krober (anthropology professor at University of California-Berkeley and Thomas Waterman, linguist of American Indian languages interviewed him as he spoke only Yahi dialect of the Yana Hokan lanuage and eventually took him to the San Francisco Bay area where he was studied until his death in 1916 from tuberculosis. Books were published about him and the Yahi culture.) |
| Associated language | nai |
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