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Ishi in Two Worlds

Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America(), a biographyby Theodora Kroeber, tells the story of Ishi, the last known Native American of the Yahi tribe of Northern California, who worked closely with Kroeber's husband, Alfred, at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley. Ishi, found outside a slaughterhouse in , was unable to communicate and an enigma to local authorities. Once he began his work with California anthropologists, however, he became a resource on the Yahi way of life, teaching academics and museum visitors about his culture, which, without his efforts and the efforts of the anthropologists who helped translate his words, would have been completely lost.

Theodora and Alfred Kroeber were both anthropologists. Theodora spent much of her life writing about Ishi and creating published story collections of folktales and myths from a number of tribes from northern California. Her work stretched fifty years from the early s into the s; her writing about Ishi was based primarily on her husband's experiences working with him at the Museum of Anthropology from to Ishi's death in She also wrote a fictionalized account of Ishi's life a few years after publishing his biography. Ishi: Last of His Tr
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About the Book
An essential biography and historical document, Ishi's deeply moving life story is critical to understanding the legacies of white violence and Indigenous survival on the land we call California.

First published in , Ishi in Two Worlds tells the life story of the last known surviving member of the Yahi people, an indigenous community decimated by invasion and genocide at the hands of white settlers during the California Gold Rush. The man, whose real name we will never know, lived for decades in the Mount Lassen foothills of the Sierra Nevada before being captured by Americans near Oroville in Anthropologists at the University of California named him Ishi, the Yana word for man, and brought him to San Francisco where he spent the rest of his life detained at the University’s Museum of Anthropology under the custody of Alfred Louis Kroeber.

Theodora Kroeber’s Ishi in Two Worlds offers an intimate glimpse into the remarkable life of a resilient man facing harrowing, unforgivable circumstances. Drawing from her husband’s records, linguistic notes, and archival and oral histories, Kroeber presents a contested history of North American indigenous people and the atrocities of violence, abuse, and disease wrought by white men. Reckoning with the indefensi