Treaty Rights and Natural Resources

ESPM 3001/5001

Questions for Discussion,  ISHI, The Last Yahi--Feb. 18, 2008


How did the slaughterhouse workers at Oroville, CA, interpret Ishi's presence when they found him?

Why did the Univ. California anthropologists, Waterman and Kroeber, find it difficult to communicate with Ishi?

What was the significance of the Kingsley Cave massacre in Ishi's life?

How did Ishi's personal physician at the university come to influence our understanding of Indian life?

What did the San Francisco Exhibition mean to Ishi?

How did the general population of northern California perceive Indian people in the latter half of the Nineteenth Century?

 

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