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Ishi: The Last Yahi Film/Trigger reading Questions Watch the documentary Ishi's Return: The Last Wild Indian from the link in Canvas and read Bruce Trigger’s article “Archaeology and the Image of the American Indian” (Canvas) and answer the following questions in paragraph form. Upload your answers to Canvas on the due date before midnight. 1. How does Alfred Kroeber’s obsession with finding a “wild” Indian to study reflect early 20 th century American anthropology’s attitude toward Native American cultures and their prospects for long term survival? 2. Though Kroeber was a cultural anthropologist, his interest in Ishi was still very archaeological i.e. based on the products of culture, i.e. artifacts. What were the aspects of Ishi and his culture was Kroeber most interested in displaying for the public?

3. To what period in American Anthropological theory discussed in Trigger's reading does Kroeber’s study of Ishi date? What aspects of Ishi's culture and his status as a human being were ignored in his last years at Hearst and after his death? 4. How does the reclamation of Ishi's body by present day Native American groups reflect on the changing relationship of American archaeology to Native Americans? What, if anything, still needs changing in your opinion?

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