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Title Ishi's return / directed by Chris Eyre and Roberta Grossman, written by Sophie Sartain
Published [Los Angeles] : Katahdin Productions, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 min.) : flv file, sound, color, black and white sequences
Summary A short documentary about Ishi, billed in 1911 as the "last wild Indian" when he wandered out of the woods in Oroville, CA, and became a national sensation. When Ishi died, his brain was removed and sent to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Eighty years later, his descendants in California fight to have his remains repatriated to his ancestral home. Contrary to the master narrative that Indians would die off, the film shows how Native Americans managed to survive the darkest period of their history and reclaim parts of a fractured past
Performer Interviewees: Art Angle, Floyd Buckskin, Philip J. Deloria, Rayna Green
Event Originally produced by Katahdin Productions in 2016
Notes Closed-captioned
Description based on online resource; title from title screen (Kanopy platform, viewed May 7, 2019)
Subject Ishi, -1916.
SUBJECT Ishi, -1916 fast
Subject Yana Indians.
Indians of North America -- California -- Biography
Indians, Treatment of -- United States.
Indians, Treatment of
Indians of North America
Yana Indians
United States
California
Genre/Form documentary film.
Biographies
Documentary films
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Eyre, Chris, 1969- film director.
Grossman, Roberta, film director.
Sartain, Sophie, screenwriter.
Katahdin Productions (Firm)