Ishi, the last Yahi / a Rattlesnake Productions film presentation ; produced and directed by Jed Riffe and Pamela Roberts ; written by Anne Makepeace.

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Presents a narrated version of the discovery of Ishi, last member of the Yahi Indian tribe, and events in his life after coming into the white man's world.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Rattlesnake Productions, Inc Shanachie Entertainment Corp
Other Authors:	Riffe, Jed (Producer, Director) Roberts, Pamela (Filmmaker) (Producer, Director) Makepeace, Anne (Screenwriter) Hunt, Linda, 1945- (Narrator) Kroeber, Theodora Heizer, Robert F. (Robert Fleming), 1915-1979
Language:	English
Language and/or Writing System:	In English.
Published:	Newton, N.J. : Shanachie Entertainment Corp., [2002], ©2002.
Series:	Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:	Ishi, > -1916. Yana people > California > Biography. Yana people. Indians of North America > California > History. Yana Indians > History. Documentary television programs. Biographical television programs. Television adaptations. Nonfiction television programs. Yana Indians. California.
Genre:	Biography. Documentary television programs. Biographical television programs. Television adaptations. Nonfiction television programs.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:	American experience.
Format:	Video DVD

Contents:

Wild man in Oroville
Uncontaminated aborigine
Ishi meets Caruso
50 cents a scalp
Ishi on exhibition
Yahi massacres
Visiting Ishi's homeland
Ishi's last hiding place
Panama Pacific exhibition
Hard work and tuberculosis.