Ishi: The Last Yahi Movie Review 1993

Profiles the last survivor of the Yahi tribe of California, named Ishi by anthropologist Albert Kroeber. After 40 years in hiding, Ishi appeared in 1911 to the amazement of the world, and soon became an historical specimen filling the gaps of unanswered questions about Yahi culture.

Distribution

University of California Extension Ctr. for Media & Independent Learning, 2000 Center St., 4th Fl., Berkeley, CA 94704, Phone: (510)642-0460, Fax: (510)643-9271, Email: mediaservices@ucxonline.berkeley.edu

Available on VHS
Running time 57 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Native Americans, History, Anthropology

Director

Jed Riffe, Pamela Roberts

Other

Linda Hunt