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Season 5 Episode 20: Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian

36 SeasonsDec 02, 1992TV-PG55m8.6

When "Ishi," the last surviving member of a small Indian tribe, walked into the small California town of Oroville in 1911, he became a media curiosity and scientific "specimen." The San Francisco Museum built a Yahi house where audiences could watch Ishi make arrowheads and shoot bows. Ishi went to the theater and received invitations of marriage. But contact would bring him terrible physical and psychological consequences.

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Season 5 Episodes:

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3. The Donner Party

Aired: Oct 28, 1992

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Episode 4 The Johnstown Flood

4. The Johnstown Flood

Aired: Nov 4, 1992

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Episode 9 If You Knew Sousa

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Aired: Feb 8, 1993

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Episode 10 Simple Justice

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Aired: Feb 1, 1993

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Aired: Feb 15, 1993

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Current Status: Currently Airing

Network: PBS

Production Country: United States

Genres:Documentary, History, Biography