Ishi\'s Brain: In Search of the Last Wild Indian by Orin Starn

Ishi\'s Brain: In Search of the Last Wild Indian

Orin Starn

352 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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Captured in the hills of northern California in 1911, Ishi, the last stone-age Indian in North America, was brought to San Francisco by the famous anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, and became a living museum display until his death five years later.I...

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