![]() ![]() Last week's Portals told the story of how Ishi's tiny band of Yahi Indians stayed out of settlers' view for almost 50 years in their river canyon territory near Mount Lassen. Then he spent five years as an object of civilization's fascination with his vanished way of life. Ishi spent decades hiding out from white settlers' genocidal campaign against California Indians. Kemp, File) Ran on: 11-13-2011 Ishi, the last Southern Yana Indian, wasn't the best singer. ![]() ![]() (AP Photo/Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology/UC Berkeley Regents, E.H. Nearly 90 years after an Indian known as Ishi walked out of the wilderness and was put on display as the "Last Wild Man in North America," his brain is being brought back home from the Smithsonian Institution to California for a proper burial. FILE-An Indian known as Ishi is shown in this July 1912 portrait made in San Francisco. ![]()
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