Ishi: The Last of His Tribe

Name: Ishi: The Last of His Tribe
Director: Robert Ellis Miller
Genre: TV Movie, Drama
Released: 1978-12-20
Duration: 1 h 40 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Dennis Weaver, Eloy Casados, Devon Ericson, Joaquín Martínez, Geno Silva

1978

1h 40m

TV Movie Drama

Director: Robert Ellis Miller

Writers: Dalton Trumbo, Christopher Trumbo

Overview

A touching dramatization of a short chapter of American history, tracing the life of the last Yahi Indian from his childhood to his death in 1917 and the story of his friendship with an anthropologist after his discovery in northern California in 1911.