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Ishi: The Last of His Tribe (1978)

Ishi: The Last of His Tribe (1978)

Drama TV Movie
Release Date: 1978, December 20
Directors: Robert Ellis Miller
Countries: United States of America
Cast: Gregory Cruz, Geno Silva, Joseph Runningfox, Joaquín Martínez, Wayne Heffley, Eloy Casados, Dennis Weaver, Peter Brandon, Dennis Dimster, Lois Red Elk, Jay W. MacIntosh, Devon Ericson

Overview:

A touching dramatization of a short chapter of American history, tracing the life of the last Yahi Indian from his childhood to his death in 1917 and the story of his friendship with an anthropologist after his discovery in northern California in 1911.