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37 Cards in this Set
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Who wrote this book? |
Orin Starn |
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When was this book written? |
2004 |
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Where did the author do his dissertation research? |
Andes |
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When did the author first visit Yahi country? |
1997 |
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How did Ishi die? |
Tuberculosis, March 1916 |
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How many Native Americans were estimated to be in CA in 1848? |
150,000 |
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How many Native Americans were estimated to be in CA in 1900? |
20,000 |
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What happened on Alcatraz Island in 1969? |
A band of young indians seized and occupied Alcatraz island for a year as a kind of Liberated Republic. |
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Who was most responsible for beginning the movement to "Retribalize" Ishi? |
Art Angle |
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Where did the author (and others) first get a clue that there was an issue surrounding Ishi's brain? |
In Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber |
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Who came up with the name "Ishi"? and what does it mean? |
Alfred Kroeber. It means anglicization of the Yano word I'citi meaning man. |
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How did Alfred Kroeber's knowledge of "Yahi" compare to Ishi's knowledge of English? |
Ishi learned more English than Kroeber ever grasped of Yahi. |
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How did kroeber feel about the proposed autopsy of Ishi? |
Kroeber was opposed to the autopsy |
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Who was Kroeber's lifelong guru of Anthropology? |
Franz Boas |
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How did Franz Boa and Kroeber feel about race and equality? |
Believed that all race were equal and their people should be judged by their own standards. |
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Who was most responsible for ensuring that the legacy of Ishi would endure to our era today? |
Theodora Kroeber |
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What factors influenced the writing of Theodora Kroeber? |
Encouraged by Alfred and friends and wanted to make the biography into a story of healing and triumph of human spirit. |
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How tall were the Yahi? |
Men were 5'4", women were 5'2" |
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How did white clam shell beads get to Mill Creek? |
Obtained by trade |
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What did the Yurok find most amazing about the Spanish when they first met? |
The variety of hair colors. |
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Where did Art Angle and author first meet in person? |
Oroville, at the Cornucopia Restaurant. |
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When did the "repatriation" movement really take off? |
By the 1980's |
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Where was Ishi first laid to rest? |
Olivet Memorial Park Cemetery in Cola. |
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How did Surgeon General William a Hammond ensure that Native American bones would end up in Washington? |
He ordered army medical officers to collect bodies and send them back to Washington. |
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How did Art Angle get interested in Ishi's Plight? |
A mural in downtown oroville of Ishi. |
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How did Robert Anderson and Sim Moak rise to fame in the Sacramento Valley? |
They rose to fame as Indian Hunters. |
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How did Anderson and his friends differentiate between "good" Indians and "bad" Indians? |
By deciding if they needed to use self-defense. |
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What happened in the Three Knolls Massacre? |
Indians were ambushed by 16 white armed men. Ishi was believed to be there. |
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What did the Yahi do to inspire the Kingsly Cave Massacre? |
They stole a cow. |
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What was in Niche 601? |
The location of Ishi's cremated remains in the Columbarium of the Olivet Cemetery. |
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Who was Nancy Rockafeller, and why did she feel compelled to investigate Ishi? |
She was a doctor at UCSF that sympathized with the Native American causes and the idea of Ishi's repatriation. She is a historian of science and was an anti-war protestor in her younger days at the University of Minnesota. |
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Who conducted Ishi's autopsy? |
Jean Cooke |
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What medical reason was there for removing Ishi's brain during the autopsy? |
IT was for "Anthropological" interest. There wasn't a good medical reason, they said it was to check for tubercular meningitis. |
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Who told the author about the fate of Ishi's brain? |
Nancy Rockafeller. |
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Who was John P. Harrington and what is the author's opinion of his practices? |
A brilliant student who studied customs and language of Chumash Indians in Southern CA. He worked on a contract for the Smithsonian's bureau kind of behavior that lead tribes to ban anthologists from their reservation. |
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What is "values free" anthropology? |
Research not affected by beliefs. |
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What is the difference between Ishi being in a vaudeville show and Ishi being on display at the Anthropology museum? Did Kroeber exploit Ishi? |
In a vaudeville show Ishi showed demonstrations of Native life. Kroeber did exploit Ishi. |
