yana indians

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Ishi in two worlds

a biography of the last wild Indian in North America
2002

Ishi's brain

in search of America's last "wild" Indian
2004

Ishi

the last of his people
2000
Describes the life and anthropologists' study of Ishi, the last man of the Yahi Native Americans, who died in 1916.

Ishi-last of his tribe

1964
The story of the last surviving member of the Yana Indian tribe.

Ishi in two worlds

a biography of the last wild Indian in North America
1961
Tells the story of Ishi, the last member of the lost tribe of Yana, who wandered out of the hills on August 29, 1911 and was taken in by anthropologists at the University of California where he spent the last years of his life.

Ishi

the last of his people
1991
Recounts the life of Ishi, sole survivor of a small band of Yahi Indians, who was found in 1911 near Oroville, California.

Ishi

1993
Biography of Ishi, who, in 1908, became the last surviving member of the Yahi tribe, which was part of the Yana nation of California Indians, discussing the life of his tribe, the reasons its people died, and Ishi's life after he was found and brought to the University of California at Berkeley.

Ishi's tale of Lizard

1992
Lizard's work of making arrows is interrupted when Long-Tailed Lizard goes to get him more foreshaft wood and is eaten by Grizzly Bear.

Coyote goes hunting for fire

a California Indian myth
1974
As all the other animals fear, Coyote successfully bungles their plans to obtain fire.

Ishi

1980
A biography of the last of the Yahi Indians, who for many years lived in hidden villages and caves in northern California.
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