WILD INDIAN

1. The book was written by Orin Starn
2. It was written in 1911
3. The dissertation research was done in California
4. The author visited Yahi in1998
5. Ishi died when he contracted tuberculosis and died on his bed unable to fight it.
6. The number of Native Americans estimated to be in California in the year 1848 was approximately 2 to 3 thousand in 2,400 square mile
7. The number of Native Americans estimated to be in California in the 1900 was approximately 5 to 20 Yahi
8. In Alcatraz island there took place the occupation of the island by Native Americans
9. The person who was responsible for re-tribalizing the Ishi was called Killion
10. Orin Starn first got a clue of the issue concerning Ishi’s brain in Northern California’s Butte County
11. The person who came up with the name ‘Ishi’ was called Alfred Kroeber, Ishi meant man
12. Alfred Kroeber knowledge developed a great understanding of Yahi while Ishi’s English was broken.
13. Kroeber did not support the autopsy
14. Kroeber lifelong guru of anthropology was called Franz Boas
15. Kroeber and Frank Boas felt that race should be reduced as they bring about ideologies and inequality
16. The person who ensured that the legacy of Ishi would stay on till our present time was called Theodora Kroeber
17. Theodora Kroeber was influenced by the extreme sorrow and wonders of the Yahi
18. The Yahi were approximately 1.7 meters tall
19. The white clam shell beads got to the Mill Creek through trading networks.
20. The Yurok found the Spanish to be quite unfettered before the coming of other settlers
21. Art Angle and Orin Starn first met at Olivet Memorial Park near Colma
22. Surgeon General William Hammond suggested that there be an establishment of an army medical museum in Washington DC. This would ensure that the bones would end up in Washington.
23. The repatriation took off in the year1999.
24. Ishi was first buried in a cemetery in the San Francisco Bay
25. Art Angle, a Native American got interested in Ishi’s plight by starting a search for his remains. This was when he was informed that that Berkeley and UC San Francisco did not have a clue of where the brain was.
26. A number of Indians were killed in the Sacramento valley where they escaped.
27. The Indians who died were less harmful to Tehama county
28. Yahi’s father was murdered by white people at the three Knolls massacre
29. The bounties placed by the Indians Inspired the Kingsley cave massacres
30. Ishi’s ashes lay in the Niche 601
31. Nancy Rockefeller was a historian; she was compelled to investigate Ishi since his brain went missing.
32. Jean V. Cooke conducted Ishi’s autopsy
33. Ishi’s brain was removed for the interest of science
34. The fate of Ishi’s brain was told to Orin Starn by John P. Harrington
35. John P. Harrington is a linguist and ethnographer. He was a renown individual in the ancient American studies. He was thought of as being closely associated with the Indians.
36. ‘Value free’ is a notion that has been used so as to state that all of the cultures are equal. They tend to be placed on the same level.
37. At the Vaudeville show, Ishi was present so that the white people would be able to learn more about him while in the anthropology museum; Ishi was kept so that all the language, traditions and his history would be kept safe and be able to learn more from him. Kroeber did not exploit him he actually prevented him from being exploited.

Reference

Starn, O. (2005). Ishi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last “Wild” Indian. New York: Norton.