The Last Yahi <Tab/> I would like to state that I found parts of this projects impractical, mainly the part about this essay to be written as a newspaper article, as if we were an early 1900s reporter. There were articles about Ishi, but they were not an accurate interpretations of him. They wrote to intrigue the reader not as much to inform. They also would not have told about how …
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…Saxton Pope, took a quick liking to Ishi. Ishi got a job at the museum as a janitor and demonstrating arrow making, fire building, and other Yahi techniques. In 1916 Ishi died of tuberculosis. <Tab/>Through Ishi I learned that the Native Americans had many difficulties because of settlers. The settlers stole their land, killed them, wiped out entire civilizations, forced them off their homelands, and committed other brutal acts of violence.