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American Experience•Season 5•Episode 20

Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian

Dec 2, 199255 min

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

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Episode Summary

"Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian" is episode 20 of American Experience season 5. It aired on December 2, 1992.

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