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Ishi: The Last Yahi
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he Yahi stories contain information of a past culture which connects to Archaeology in California. The relationship between the story of the last Yahi and Archaeology in California is that they conn ... ect with anthropological understanding. Using archaeology with Ishi 's story helped uncover what his life was like. By someone like Ishi, being able to provide facts and understand its meaning has given rise to a culture that no longer exists. Alfred Kroeber was the first Professor in the new anthropology department at Berkeley. Ishi was the last Yahi-group individual, a Native American tribe. He wouldn’t tell anyone his name so they called him Ishi, meaning “man” in the Yahi language. Ishi was looked at as an uncivilized and uncontaminated man in the world, the last of his kind. Alfred Kroeber gave Ishi a room in the anthropology museum which was surrounded by exhibits of dead and dying cultures. [Show More]
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