Ishi believed he was the only surviving warrior of a Stone Age tribe to have lived into the 20th Century. He was born into the Yahi tribe and survived numerous attacks by frontier Indian fighters, who had only one goal--to kill every Indian to make California safe for settlement. In 1864, R.A. Anderson, Hiram Good, and their pioneer Guards, reportedly killed over two thousand Indians just in Northern California alone. So successful were the Guards...
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