Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

2/1/1989 - 8/31/1989

Funding Totals

$30,000.00 (approved)
$30,000.00 (awarded)


ISHI: The Last Yahi, A one Hour Film on the Man Known as "Ishi" the Last Wild Indian in North America

FAIN: GN-23723-89

Rattlesnake Productions, Inc. (Berkeley, CA 94710)
N. Jed Riffe (Project Director: September 1988 to April 1990)

To support film research, interviews, location scouting, and the development ofa shooting script for a one-hour documentary about the life of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian, and his relationship with anthropologist Alfred Kroeber.