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The Word For Man Is Ishi

The Last Archive

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Grover's Daughter Retold the Story of Ishi in San Francisco

This kind of final betrayal from Grover really changes the story up. What's hard about this history is there is no reliable narrator. All the people setting down the accounts we have of Ishi in San Francisco were trying to see him as a record of his culture. That was how they told the story. But that story left a whole lot out.

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