Ishi: The Last of His Tribe, with Eloy Casados in the title role, telecast on NBC December 20, 1978.
Some think it is superior to the 1992 version of the same story The Last of His Tribe, also a TV movie starring Jon Voight which was criticized for being too politically correct.
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Ishi: The Last of His Tribe (1978) is a made-for-television biopic based on a book by Theodora Kroeber which relates the experiences of her husband Alfred L. Kroeber who made friends with Ishi, thought to be the last of his people, the Yahi tribe.
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Ishi is 'discovered' and taken to the Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, San Francisco
Further inspiration came from the work of her parents, anthropologists Alfred L. Kroeber and Theodora Kroeber, with Ishi.
In 2009, Pfister coauthored The Weight of Salt and Soul with Tim Lucas, an original screenplay based on the life of Ishi, a Native American who was the last of his tribe and acclimated to the white man's world during the early twentieth century.
Nyōgo: Imperial Princess Ishi (為子内親王) (？–899), daughter of Emperor Kōkō
Jed Riffe created an award-winning documentary film Ishi: The Last Yahi (1992).
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Author George R. Stewart gave the name "Ish" (short for Isherwood) to the protagonist in his novel Earth Abides, a post-apocalyptic novel in which Ish emerges from his cabin in the mountains to find a plague of mass proportions had swept through the United States, leaving him to be the last of his "tribe," the Americans.
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He was treated by a Professor of Medicine at UCSF, Saxton T. Pope.
Ishi is the name given by anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber to the last surviving Native American from the Yahi Yana tribe.
For over 25 years his documentary films have focused on social issues including: Native American histories and struggles (Ishi, the Last Yahi, California's "Lost" Tribes, Who Owns the Past?,) and agriculture, food and sustainability issues (Ripe for Change, Germ Wars).
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His most acclaimed film, Ishi, the Last Yahi was released theatrically and broadcast nationally on the PBS series The American Experience.
Things became serious for in 2007 when he moved to Stockholm and began working with producer Ishi.
Starn was involved in the repatriation to California of the remains of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian.
Ishi Press' first few publications were translations of Japanese books such as Eio Sakata's The Middle Game of Go and Modern Joseki and Fuseki Vol. I and II but Bozulich soon began working with Japanese professional players, as well as principal collaborators James Davies and John Power, to produce original works in English.
He is most famous as the father of modern bow hunting, and for his close relationship with Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe and the last known American Indian to be raised largely isolated from Western culture.