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Ishi's brain : in search of America's last "wild" Indian

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  • "An anthropologist retraces his efforts to locate the brain of Ishi--the "last wild Indian" of California who became an icon of dying Native American culture when he was captured in 1911--and his struggle to repatriate the remains."
  • ""After the Yahi were massacred in the mid-nineteenth century, Ishi survived alone for decades in the mountains of northern California. His capture in 1911 made him a national sensation; anthropologist Alfred Kroeber declared him the world's most "uncivilized" man and made Ishi a living exhibit in his museum. Thousands came to see the displaced Indian before his death from tuberculosis. Ishi's Brain follows Orin Starn's gripping quest for the remains of the last of the Yahi, from the mountains of California to a forgotten steel vat at the Smithsonian"--Back cover."

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