Ishi in two worlds : a biography of the last wild Indian in North America
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Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002].
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xxiii, 254 pages, [14] pages of plates : ill. ; 21 cm
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO ISHI 1961
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO ISHI 2002
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Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002].
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-254)
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"The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than forty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography has been sharing this tragic and absorbing drama with readers all over the world. Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and with terror of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughterhouse near Oroville, California. Finally identified as an Indian by an anthropologist, Ishi was brought to San Francisco by Professor T. T. Waterman and lived there the rest of his life under the care and protection of Alfred Kroeber and the staff of the University of California's Museum of Anthropology. Karl Kroeber adds an informative tribute to the text, describing how the book came to be and how Theodora Kroeber's approach to the project was both a product of her era and of her insight and her empathy."--BOOK JACKET

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Kroeber, T. (2002). Ishi in two worlds: a biography of the last wild Indian in North America . University of California Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Kroeber, Theodora. 2002. Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America. University of California Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Kroeber, Theodora. Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America University of California Press, 2002.

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Kroeber, Theodora. Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America University of California Press, 2002.

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