Native American Encyclopedia Indian Wars To Massachuset

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8 Ishi Ishi about 1860 1916 was the last surviving member of the Yahi Native Americans from the Yana tribe of northern California Settlers massacred the Yahi during the late 1800s Ishi and a few of his people survived by hiding from the settlers By 1908 all of Ishi’s family had died In 1911 he entered the town of Oroville North Carolina alone and hungry The Museum of Anthropology at the University of California gave him a home and in return Ishi shared his ways with anthropologists He lived there until he died five years later from tuberculosis Ishi’s life story has been portrayed in books and television films Isparhecher 1829-1902 was a tribal chief of the Creek Nation born in Alabama He lost both parents on the Trail of Tears He fought in the American Civil War and participated in Creek politics He became a leader of Creek conservatives and in 1882 led an attempt to overthrow his tribe’s government This effort failed but Isparhecher continued to participate in Creek politics and spent his life trying to prevent the loss of Creek lands to U S settlement Ivory is a hard white material that is part of the teeth and tusks of animals such as the elephant hippopotamus and walrus Native Peoples of the Arctic Culture Area have been carving the ivory of walrus tusks since prehistoric times They usually carve ivory into knives and small art sculptures Killing animals for ivory is now against the law in many countries The Inuit however are still allowed to hunt walruses though they do have a certain number or quota of animals they can kill each year See also Aleut Arctic Culture Area and Inuit The Inuit carved ivory sculptures of things important to them such as arctic animals hunters masks and kayaks