Lassen, which the Indians worshipped as Waganupa. In 1850 an estimated 3,000 Yana occupied 2,000 square miles of land in the foothills around volcanic Mt. He stands alone as the embodiment of the Yahi, a tribelet of the small Yana Indian nation which was wiped out by whites who came to California for the gold rush. Ishi himself is beyond any enchancement or destruction of reputation. The movie is likely to enchance the already formidable reputation of Trumbo, who wrote the first two-thirds of the script, and which was completed by his son, Christopher, after his father's death. 29, 1911, in full expectation that he soon would be killed by them, film producer Edward Lewis is making a three-hour television movie about Ishi. Now, on the gree, rain-Washed foothills of northern California near the slaughterhouse where Ishi surrenidered to farmers and their dogs on Aug. He died in 1976 of lung cancer, two years after Hollywood finally awarded him the Oscar he had won under a pseudonym (as Robert Rich, screenwriter of "The Brave One") more than 20 years earlier. He survived massacres, pursuit, hunger, loneliness and a generation of hiding only to die of tuberculosis in a white man's museum.ĭalton Trumbo was the most gifted of the odd group of blacklisted writers known as the Hollywood Ten, of whom four remain alive. Ishi was the last wild Indian of North America.
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