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First Americans

FadedMullet

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5. I read Theodora Kroeber's book "Ishi in Two Worlds" when it came out in 1961 having received it as a fifteenth.....

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Sun Jul 27, 2025, 05:06 PM

Jul 27

......birthday gift from my oddball Aunt Dorothy. Reading this post has piqued my interest in reading it again so I looked it up, first at my local libraries website (no luck) and then Amazon. I was really surprised to see the numerous other titles that came out about Ishi around that time. He was quite the story.

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Ishi, The Last Yahi [View all] CountAllVotes Jul 27 OP

perhaps you could research and write this chapter .. ? stopdiggin Jul 27 #1

My thesis was on a very similar topic CountAllVotes Jul 27 #2

this video here mentions him being "isolated" CountAllVotes Jul 27 #3

Ishi's well-being ... CountAllVotes Jul 29 #13

Influenced Ursula Le Guin massjava Jul 27 #4

Welcome to DU LetMyPeopleVote Jul 28 #11

Kroeber also had an adopted son CountAllVotes Jul 28 #12

I read Theodora Kroeber's book "Ishi in Two Worlds" when it came out in 1961 having received it as a fifteenth..... FadedMullet Jul 27 #5

The various films & books don't do Ishi justice CountAllVotes Jul 27 #6

Interesting. Black folk and Native Americans certainly weren't the only people mistreated when they came to..... FadedMullet Jul 28 #9

Immigrants to this country never had it easy CountAllVotes Jul 28 #10

Bookmarked Bayard Jul 27 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author Bayard Jul 27 #8

Kroeber Hall no more CountAllVotes Jul 29 #14

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