Ishi The Last Yahi

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Ishi The Last Yahi Ishi: The Last Yahi The 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 connect 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. In the room there was a table with his family’s bows, arrows, happiness and the fur cape stolen by the surveyors when they raided his cab. The room was full of dying cultures and Ishi was part of it, he was the last of his culture. Later on Kroeber opened up the museum to the public, the only museum with a living exhibit, Ishi the Stone Age man. Many people wanted to know and learn more about Ishi, newspaper reporters demanded a press conference with Ishi Kroeber arranged a photo session assuming that Ishi would go along with the plan Ishi agreed to wear animal skin but not remove his pants. He was put out to the public to show people how he shot bows and arrows, people would see him as the last wild Indian.​ ​Anthropologists and archaeologists were trying to understand Ishi, they wanted to hear his story but did not know the Yahi language they had trouble with. They tried many ways to translate his language but still could make sense of what he meant, even when they understood some words. Archaeology and anthropology reconstructed the events that happened in the late 19th and early 20th century by going back to where Ishi was living, his Country and trying to participate in the reality. Jerry Johnson Brian Bibby and Jim Johnston have been searching for clues for Ishi’s story, past life, for years. They set out to retrace the 1914 expedition and tried to put themselves in his place. This Historical film of California helps me analyze the relationships with the story of Yosemite and the present day culture of Celebrating Yosemite National Park, both the film, Ishi: The Last Yahi, and Yosemite were raided by different cultures abd. I heard of Yosemite before but I never knew about the history of it or even knew about the Ahwahneechee. I just knew about Yosemite National Park [Show More]

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