Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-404) and index.

Map: The San Francisco of Ishi -- Pt. 1. Ishi in San Francisco -- 1. A Personal Remembrance of Ishi / Fred H. Zumwalt, Jr. -- 2. Ishi's Two Bodies: Anthropology and Popular Culture / Rachel Adams -- 3. When the Demons Come: (Retro)Spectacle among the Savages / Jace Weaver -- 4. Kroeber, Pope, and Ishi / Grace Wilson Buzaljko -- Pt. 2. The Repatriation Controversy -- 5. Repatriating the Remains of Ishi: Smithsonian Institution Report and Recommendation / Stuart Speaker -- 6. Assuming Responsibility for Ishi / Stanley H. Brandes -- 7. Assuming Responsibility for Ishi: An Alternative Interpretation / George M. Foster -- 8. Ishi's Brain, Ishi's Ashes: Reflections on Anthropology and Genocide / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- 9. The Humanity of Ishi / Karl Kroeber -- 10. Ishi and the University / Karen Biestman -- Pt. 3. Ishi's World Revisited --

11. The Stone Tool Technology of Ishi and the Yana / M. Steven Shackley -- 12. Ishi's Spanish Words / Orin Starn -- 13. Ishi's Language / Victor Golla -- Pt. 4. Ishi's Stories -- 14. Yahi Culture in the Wax Museum: Ishi's Sound Recordings / Ira Jacknis -- 15. When the World Was New: Ishi's Stories / Jean Perry -- 16. The Story of Lizard / Herbert Luthin and Leanne Hinton -- 17. The Days of a Life: What Ishi's Stories Can Tell Us About Ishi / Herbert Luthin and Leanne Hinton -- Pt. 5. Ishi as Inspiration -- 18. The Power of Names / Gary Strankman -- 19. Mister Ishi: Analogies of Exile, Deliverance, and Liberty / Gerald Vizenor -- 20. Native Sovereignty and the Tricky Mirror: Gerald Vizenor's "Ishi and the Wood Ducks" / Louis Owens -- 21. The Healer: Maidu Artist Frank Day's Vision of Ishi / Rebecca J. Dobkins -- 22. What Wild Indian? / Frank Tuttle --

App. The Condition of California Indians, 1906.