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- From: aaldrich@encore.com (Al Aldrich)
- Subject: Re: Movie about Ishi
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 13:26:00 GMT
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- SL500000@brownvm.brown.edu (Robert Mathiesen) writes:
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- >This is the movie about Ishi, who was rescued by A. Kroeber; Kroeber's
- >wife Theodora wrote a very famous book about him. (I seem to remember
- >hearing somewhere that Ursula LeGuin in their daughter.) His tribe,
- >which lived in the general vicinity of Mt. Lassen, was hunted down like
- >animals and (it was believed) exterminated by settlers in the area some-
- >time around 1900. He survived the massacre and led a solitary life for
- >perhaps two decades until hunger and illness forced him out of the woods.
- >He was found by the police in Stockton and jailed (probably as a vagrant);
- >Kroeber was called in as a specialist in the Native American languages
- >of California to attempt to communicate with him. It's pretty clear, if
- >the book can be trusted, that Kroeber meant well by Ishi, but I have no
- >independent information on the score. Both Kroeber and Ishi were dead by
- >the time I was an undergraduate at Berkeley (where all this happened), but
- >their presence was still felt in the Anthropology Museum there. -Robert
-
- Thanks for that..I had no idea that this was based on a true story.
-
- al
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- Al Aldrich aaldrich@encore.com 305-797-2335
- "Mythology: The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its
- origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished
- from the true accounts which it invents later." -- Ambrose Bierce
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