Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

4/1/1990 - 11/30/1992

Funding Totals

$475,147.00 (approved)
$475,147.00 (awarded)


Ishi, The Last Yahi, a Biographical Documentary Film of the Man Known as "the Last Aboriginal Indian in North America"

FAIN: GN-23935-90

Rattlesnake Productions, Inc. (San Francisco, CA 94123)
N. Jed Riffe (Project Director: September 1989 to September 1993)

To support production of a one-hour television documentary about Ishi, the lastsurviving Yahi, his tribal culture, the development of American anthropology at that time, and changing U.S. attitudes towards native Americans.