A two-act play/performance text inspired by James Luna’s performance of “Ishi: The Archive Performance”: Boston, July 2014, text courtesy of Elena Creef; see also Johns (2014).3 Contrary to Theodora Kroeber, Ishi’s story did not end with the publication of her book Ishi in Two Worlds (1961; also Kroeber and Kroeber, 2003). In fact, Ishi has had multiple lives since he died. Here are some of them. In fact, he became an indigenist rights activist participating in the Dakota Access Pipeline Protest (2022).
KroeberK.KroeberC. (Eds.). (2003). Ishi in three centuries. University of Nebraska Press.
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KroeberT. (1989). Ishi in two worlds: A biography of the last wild Indian North America. University of California Press. (Original work published 1961)
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SmithP. C. (2005). Luna remembers. In SmithL. T. (Ed.), James Luna: Emendatio: Exhibition (pp. 25–48). Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
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StarnO. (2004). Ishi’s brain: In search of the last “wild” Indian. W. W. Norton.
