So they locked him up in their jail, and because he looked to strange to them, they called to the University of California, at Berkley, and they sent down an anthropologist to have a look at this man...he took the man back with him to the university to study....The anthropologist got the museum and university to allow lodgings for Ishi...he lived either in the museum or in the library, at least somewhere at the university....
Ishi eventually learned English, and he enable the anthropologists to make a record of his own native tongue...he became quite well known during this time, and many different famous people came to visit him...
Eventually he died, when I think he was either in his late 40s or early 50s, I think...I think he died either of TB, or pneumonia, something for which he, being a Native american, had no natural immunity...
They made a movie out of the book written by the anthropologist, who was played by John Voight...Ishi was played by an actor name Graham Greene, the anthropologists wife was played by Ann Archer, and a physician who became interested in Ishi, was play by David Ogden Steirs of 'Mash' fame...I believe the movie was based on the book written by the anthropologist...I think his name was Dr. Kroeber, tho I could be mistaken about that...I was a fascinating story to me...
He died of TB. One of the things I found particularly moving about Ishi's story was that he harbored no ill will toward those who massacred his family. It was like he had a spiritual depth to him that allowed him to forgive on a level that most cannot.