Ishi, The Last Yahi

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I came across this VHS video in my collection yesterday. I had not viewed it in some time.

I am angry.

I am angry because I know something that was going on with Ishi, The Last Yahi.

After he was taken to San Francisco, he was caged up and people were paying five cents to have a look at the "Wild Indian".

One of the people that was there was my grandfather. My grandfather was a young man at the time and he was horrified to see that a human being was being kept in a cage and people were paying to see him.

My grandfather told my late father about this yet it is nowhere to be found in the history books ... of course!

Say what you like but I believe my grandfather!

The healing from the horrible genocide of the American Indian will never begin until the lies STOP!