A 1915 newspaper photograph showing female reporter Grace Darling with Ishi (c1861 – 1916) , the last of the Yahi (Yana) tribe of California. In 1911, aged 50, he unexpectedly emerged near the foothills of of California . It was thought that the northern Yahi / Yana tribe had all been killed in the California genocide of the 19th century. His own family had been killed in the Three Knolls Massacre. He was acclaimed as the "last wild Indian" in America. Ishi was a given name as the man said that he had no name because there were nobody to name him. Ishi, which means "man" in his language.

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Photo credit: © Colin Waters / Alamy / Afripics
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