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Biographical facts about Ishi:
- Ishi was born sometime in the mid 1860's.
- Ishi is one of four groups of Yana Indians, the Yahi..
- The few remaining Yahi around 1894 fled from Mill Creek to Deer Creek.
- For many years he lived unnoticed at Deer Creek with his mother, his sister, an old man, and a young man.
- In November of 1908, the young man was dead, Ishi and the other three were discovered. Ishi's sister escaped with the old man while Ishi stayed to watch what was happening to his sick mother.
- After being discovered Ishi never saw his sister or the old man again, and his mother died shortly after.
- On August 29, 1911 he emerged from the wilderness at a slaughter house in Oroville California. He spent a few days in the Oroville jail, partially for his protection and partially because they did not know what to do with him.
- Professors Alfred Kroeber and T. Waterman took responsibility for him and took him to live at the museum at the Affiliated Colleges on September 4.
- Over the four years and seven months that he was there he gave many demonstrations on arrow making, bow making, arrow shooting, and other things.
- He also went to many parties and things with Kroeber and Waterman.
- Where ever he went he was always welcome and made many friends.
- He made great friends with the chef, whom he called Chiep, and with the hospital's doctor, Pope, he called him Popey.
- In the Spring of 1914 Ishi, Waterman, Chiep, Popey, and a few others took a trip to Yahi country, Mill and Deer Creek. They made maps of Ishi's old villages and learned more of Ishi's ways.
- 1914 was considered his brightest year.
- He developed a hacking cough in December 1914 and had on and off symptoms until he finally died of tuberculosis on March 25, 1916.
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