ISHI Last of His Tribe Author:Theodora Kroeber Ishi is a story from history. Ishi was an American Indian born in 1861 or 1862. His tribe was the Yana. His parents belonged to the southernmost of the Yana who called themselves the Yahi. — The Yana lived in the western foothills of Mt. Lassen in northern California. — In 1911 Ishi was discovered in the corral of a slaughterhouse near Oroville,... more » Ca.