How White Men Won the Culture Wars: A History of Veteran AmericaJosephDardaOakland: University of California Press, 2021.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Lembcke
Keyword(s):  
White Men ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
University Of California ◽  
History Of

Stop Hunting Ishi

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-50
Author(s):  
William Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
White Men ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Tribal Sovereignty ◽  
Indian Gaming ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
The University

This essay follows the history of hunting Indians in California to the hunting of Ishi—the “last wild Indian in North America”—by anthropologists from the University of California through to the present-day hunt for Ishi’s legacy and his physical remains. William Bauer explores why Ishi was hunted, and what he has represented to different constituencies: the savage Indian on the frontier, killing livestock as well as white men, women, and children, and deserving a violent end himself; a symbol of Indian life supposedly uncontaminated by modernity; and tribal sovereignty and self-determination, a renaissance of indigenous politics and culture made possible by the survival of indigenous people and nations, and the economic opportunities of Indian gaming. Bauer argues that people who hunt for deeper meaning in Ishi’s legacy are often looking to understand something about themselves, not about indigenous people.

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