(1862?–1916), Native American of the Yahi tribe. The Yahi were part of the Yana of northeastern California. After years of brutal raids between the Native Americans and whites, only a few Yahi were left by 1908. Ishi, his mother, his sister, and an old man stayed above Mill Creek, camouflaging their shelters and leaving no footprints. A party of surveyors found them, and only Ishi survived the ensuing flight. He stayed in the wilderness for three more years but, half-starving, he surrendered in August 1911. While Ishi was in captivity, anthropologists arrived to learn about his people, and he described their way of life for Alfred L. Kroeber and Thomas Waterman. He told them of Yahi stories and songs as well as toolmaking and fishing skills they had used. He worked as a janitor and groundskeeper at the Anthropological Museum of the University of California in San Francisco, but he died of tuberculosis after five years. Theodora Kroeber, the wife of the anthropologist, wrote ‘Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America', which was published in 1961.