Ishi

Description:

When the Yahi tribe is virtually starved out of existence by the white man's cutting off its food supply, one survivor, Ishi, is discovered and taken to a California museum at Berkeley, where he is given a job and engages in a cultural exchange with his new friends.

subjects: Juvenile literature,  Indians of North America,  Biography,  Yana Indians

People: Ishi (d. 1916)