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Posts published by “Douglas Sackman”

When Native Met City Lights

Five days after Ishi’s arrival in Yuba City Kroeber took him out for a Sunday drive through the city. Their initial destination was the ocean, about which Ishi had heard. He had already crossed the…

Ishi Meets Kroeber

The news of the “wild man of Oroville” went out on the wire. On August 30, 1911, the San Francisco Examiner carried a short piece titled “Last Lost Indian.” Alfred Kroeber read the report. His…

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