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Welcome, and how to obtain the book
If you’ve found this site, welcome. I’m Steve Schoonover, and completing this book has been part of my life for more than 30 years. It began when my efforts to educate my son to what happened to the Yahi, were derailed by my discovery that the written history of that Northern California tribe had been
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Introduction: Before the Myth
This is not a book about Ishi. This is a book about the Yahi. They were the tribe that spawned him, or kidnapped his mother from a neighboring tribe, or this, or that. The details haven’t mattered because it’s all been about Ishi. The tribe has been relegated to a mere frame around whatever myth
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Chapter 14: 1865 — The Misplaced Massacres
Central to the story of the Yahi’s destruction are two oft-cited massacres, in both of which more than 30 Indians were said to have been killed. They were the Three Knolls and Kingsley Cave. There are some glaring problems in the accounts of both slaughters, which in my reasoned opinion have resulted in them being
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Book outline
Before Ishi: The Life and Death of the Yahi Introduction: Beyond the myth: Explains the process that led me to write this book. I became annoyed that the history of the Yahi was full of fairly obvious errors and omissions that were ignored because the story was all about promoting the myths of Ishi. WITH:
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Before Ishi: The Life and Death of the Yahi 