Re-reading Ishi’s Story: Interpreting Representation in Three Worlds

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures Foreword Acknowledgements Dramatis personae PART 1 Chapter 1: You can call me Ishi: The story of a trickster The stories of Ishi Rereading Theodora This telling, telling as performance Gerald Vizenor’s Ishi the trickster Start here Chapter 2: Ishi and the wood ducks, part 2, or Ishi the “urban” Indian 1 Act one: Scene one, day one Act one: Scene two: More detail Act one: Scene three: Historical aside—Ishi sightings? Act one: Scene four: In deep trouble, need real name Act one: Scene five: Don’t believe me Act one: Scene three: Day one: I was not captured Act one: Scene four: Ishi’s second dream Act one: Scene five: Day two Act one: Scene six: Whose truth? Act two: Scene one: Entering a new life Act two: Scene two: Ishi and the anthros Act two: Scene two: Ishi’s beautiful dream Act two: Scene four: Where are we going with this? Curtain lowers, lights dimmed, drum roll Coda: In memory of Ishi Notes Chapter 3: Ishi the happy Indian and urban warrior in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park Prologue Act one: Scene one: News alert Act one: Scene two: Trouble at graduation Act two: Scene one: Trouble at Golden Gate Park Act two: Scene two: Bones and graves Act two: Scene three: Red power Act three: Scene one: Gentle Ishi: A letter from the past Act three: Scene three: Ishi dreams, Ishi is unhappy Chapter 4: Ishi in the wilderness: Anatomy of a life and a death (1861–1916) Prologue Custer died for your sins Act one: Scene one: The anthros are back at it Act one, Scene two: The anthros get back to nature Act one: Scene three: Anthros pack for trip Act one: Scene four: Fast forward: A ghost speaks up and perhaps Act two: Scene one: The ship sets sail Act two: Scene three: Kroeber photographs Ishi Act two: Scene four: The anthros play Indian with Ishi Act two: Scene five: Slow train leaves deer creek Act two: Scene six: Ishi dies: Death in a museum Act two: Scene seven: Kroeber and Ishi’s brain Epilogue Appendix: Ishi’s death, a chronology, and a dialogue Chapter 5: Ishi’s brain: The trickster’s revenge Prologue Act one: Scene one: Theodora’s book and Ishi’s brain Act one: Scene two: Repatriation Act one: Scene three: A backstory Act one: Scene four: California genocide Act one: Scene five: Los Angeles Times Act two: Scene one: Ishi, hero or victim? Act two: Scene two: The politics of justice: Ishi, hero or victim Act two: Scene three: Mea culpa won’t work Act two: Scene four: Ishi’s ghost PART 2 Chapter 6: Ishi’s ethics Act one: Scene one: What’s in a name anyway? Act one: Scene two: Ishi’s moral code Act one: Scene three: Decolonization and the sacred Act one: Scene four: Repatriation. Healing. Returning what was stolen Act one: Scene five: Hearing silenced voices Act two: Scene one: Ethics and the Indigenous I Act one: Scene one: Getting unstuck Scene two: Core values Scene three: A relational ethics Scene four: Oral historians The end Notes Chapter 7: Ishi comes home Coming home Epilogue: Alfred Kroeber Redux Ode to Ishi Appendix Ishi time line The massacres Capture and life in a museum Return to Mill Creek Death in the museum Ishi in two worlds Whose body? Whose brain? Lost and found Home at last Ishi today: Film and theater (incomplete) References Index