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Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian

S5E20 Dec 2, 1992 Runtime TBD

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When "Ishi," the last surviving member of a small Indian tribe, walked into the small California town of Oroville in 1911, he became a media curiosity and scientific "specimen." The San Francisco Museum built a Yahi house where audiences could watch Ishi make arrowheads and shoot bows. Ishi went to the theater and received invitations of marriage. But contact would bring him terrible physical and psychological consequences.

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Episode details

Episode: S5E20

Aired: Dec 2, 1992

Runtime: Runtime TBD

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