American Experience Season 5 Episode 20
Overview:
When "Ishi," the last surviving member of a small Indian tribe, walked into the small California town of Oroville in 1911, he became a media curiosity and scientific "specimen." The San Francisco Museum built a Yahi house where audiences could watch Ishi make arrowheads and shoot bows. Ishi went to the theater and received invitations of marriage. But contact would bring him terrible physical and psychological consequences.
Genre : Documentary
Actors : -
Release Date : 1992-12-02
Duration : 55 menit
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Other Episodes (Season 5)
1. The Kennedys (1): The Father, 1900-61
2. The Kennedys (2): The Sons, 1961-80
3. The Donner Party
4. Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II
5. George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King
6. Last Stand at Little Big Horn
7. If You Knew Sousa
8. Simple Justice
9. Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish
10. Sit Down And Fight
11. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
12. Goin' Back to T-Town
20. Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian
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