Ishi, The Last Yahi
I came across this VHS video in my collection yesterday. I had not viewed it in some time.
I am angry.
I am angry because I know something that was going on with Ishi, The Last Yahi.
After he was taken to San Francisco, he was caged up and people were paying five cents to have a look at the "Wild Indian".
One of the people that was there was my grandfather. My grandfather was a young man at the time and he was horrified to see that a human being was being kept in a cage and people were paying to see him.
My grandfather told my late father about this yet it is nowhere to be found in the history books ... of course!
Say what you like but I believe my grandfather!
The healing from the horrible genocide of the American Indian will never begin until the lies STOP!
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It was about a tribe said to be extinct that lived on the slopes of Mount Shasta.
After my thesis was written, one of my advisors agreed with me so much that he wrote a book about the fact that this tribe I wrote of was far larger than ever suspected.
Nail on head!
This Ishi thing plain angers me.
When will the Kroeber lies be condemned?
An "exhibition cage" at 10:01 ...
>>Waterman and Kroeber were more concerned about the Museum's exposition and their own pockets over Ishi's well-being.
He was a Professor of Psychology at San Francisco State University.
I had him for statistics.
>>Alfred adopted Theodora's sons by her first marriage, Ted and Clifton Brown, who both took his surname.
My impression of his adopted son was an odd one I always thought.
He seemed very arrogant being he was a "Kroeber' (but he really wasn't). He wore a lot of turquoise jewelry. He was probably close to 60 years old at the time I had him for the statistics class I had to take to complete my psychology degree.
I knew who he was at that time but never thought I'd be chasing his father around some 40 years later.
The Kroeber family had it all it seemed to me. Very well off, that was for certain.
I just found this:
>>Theodore Charles Kroeber died at home in San Francisco on February 26, 2019. He was 95.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sfgate/name/theodore-kroeber-obituary?id=1979452
I had no idea he lived to be so old. He was born in Berkeley and died in San Francisco. That is where my grandfather was born, in Berkeley in 1892; died in Oakland in 1956.
Of course he had no justice in life, dying of T.B. in 1916.
That was a plague at that time. T.B. took the lives of 80% of my family that was living around that time in San Francisco.
The one person that lived on was my grgrgrandfather who came to America from Ireland during the Great Famine c. 1850. He knew what justice was all about too and he, like the Indian never received it.
To me, the Irish immigrant of this time was much like the American Indian. Lots of discrimination and genocide took their lives.
My family from Ireland is the only one that a full-pedigree exists on. The rest of the families that had pedigrees were destroyed and never to be seen again after the Great Famine.
Word of mouth is what kept my own family's history alive. The same seems to be the case for the late Ishi.
Not everyone arrived on a paid for "Einstein visa" !!
Seems the name of it was removed in 2011.
Maybe someone read my thesis. 
I hope it made a difference as that was the goal.
I found this just now:
>>January 26, 2020 - UC Berkeley’s Kroeber Hall became the fourth building on campus to be stripped of its name in a year’s time. The decision by Berkeley officials capped a formal review process and was made, in large part, because the building’s namesake — Alfred Louis Kroeber, born in 1876 and the founder of the study of anthropology in the American West — is a powerful symbol that continues to evoke exclusion and erasure for Native Americans.
A proposal to unname the hall was received in July 2020 by Chancellor Carol Christ’s Building Name Review Committee. The committee reached a unanimous vote last fall in support of removing the name, following an analysis of the proposal and a solicitation and review of comments from the campus community. Of the 595 responses received, 85% favored unnaming Kroeber Hall, home of the Department of Anthropology, Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Department of Art Practice and Worth Ryder Art Gallery.
Christ supported the decision, then sought and received necessary approval from UC President Michael Drake.
In her letter to Drake, Christ added that some of Kroeber’s views and writings “clearly stand in opposition to our university’s values of inclusion and our belief in promoting diversity and excellence.” She added that removing Kroeber’s name would “help Berkeley recognize a challenging part of our history, while better supporting the diversity of today’s academic community.”
Among the key reasons highlighted in the proposal and in the review committee’s recommendation to Christ was that Kroeber collected or authorized the collection of the remains of Native American ancestors and curated a repository of them for study. While the research practice was not illegal then, the review committee wrote, “it was immoral and unethical, even for the time.”
In 1911, Kroeber also took custody of a Native American man, a genocide survivor he named Ishi, and allowed him to live at the UC’s anthropology museum, where the proposal states that he ‘”performed’ as a living exhibit for museum visitors,” making Native crafts, such a stone tools. After dying of tuberculosis in 1916, his body was autopsied, against the wishes he’d expressed to Kroeber for cremation and burial without autopsy.
Additionally, Kroeber’s pronouncement that the Ohlone people were culturally extinct contributed to the federal government not recognizing the Ohlone and “leading to the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe having no land and no political power,” according to the committee.
Phenocia Bauerle, a member of the Apsáalooke tribe of Native Americans who is director of Native American student development at Berkeley and is on the campus’s Native American Advisory Council, said today’s announcement “may seem like just political correctness, just a gesture, but it is a big gesture, because, for so long, names like Kroeber were untouchable. He signified a particular version of history, and if Berkeley is willing to make room for other histories, different experiences, to be brought into the fold, this will allow societal change to happen.”
Removing Kroeber’s name, added Ataya Cesspooch, a Berkeley Ph.D. student who is Northern Ute, Assiniboine and Lakota, is a “first step” that Berkeley must take to acknowledge that “influential scholars, such as Kroeber, participated in the dehumanization of Native Americans.”
Boalt Hall, at Berkeley Law, had its name removed in January 2020, and last November, Barrows and LeConte halls also were unnamed on the same day. Like Kroeber Hall, each had a controversial namesake whose legacy clashes with Berkeley’s mission and values. Kroeber Hall will temporarily be called the Anthropology and Art Practice Building.
Founder of anthropology in the West
Alfred Louis Kroeber, raised in New York City, attended Columbia University, earning a B.A. in 1896 and an M.A. in 1897, both in English literature. At Columbia, he also met anthropologist Franz Boas, in Boas’ seminar on American Indian languages, and “was so affected by the encounter that he went on to obtain his anthropology doctorate in 1901, the first supervised by Boas at Columbia,” wrote Ira Jacknis, a Berkeley research anthropologist at the Hearst museum and a leading historian on Kroeber’s work, in Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia.
After getting his Ph.D., Kroeber moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where the University of California was initiating a department and museum of anthropology. He was hired and began teaching anthropology in 1901, when he was 25, became a full professor in 1919 and retired in 1946.
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Kroeber led a privileged life right up until the end but was apparently haunted by a man they called "Ishi".
Now his name is no longer to be seen at U.C. Berkeley. 
It seems too many out there were saying enough is enough.
Someone took them seriously and down it went.
Kroeber Hall no longer lives.