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Podcast: Today In History with The Retrospectors
Episode: The Last Of His Tribe
Description: Ishi, a native American man who was widely acclaimed as the “last wild Indian” emerged from the wilderness on 29th August, 1911.
His arrival came as a huge surprise to the people of Oroville, California, who had thought that his entire tribe had become extinct a good 40 years earlier. He was immediately taken to a jail cell and locked up, not because he had committed a crime but because authorities simply had no idea what to do with him.
In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly explore the relationship between Ishi and the anthropologists that took him...