The Murder of Hi Good

Saturday, August 9th, 2014 

8 PM

LA Premiere

Lecture by Richard Burrill

The Murder of Hi Good 

$13 General / $11 VPES Members  
http://higood.brownpapertickets.com/ 

The Murder of Hi Good is a true-crime revisionist western shot on 35mm, Super 16mm, Super 8mm and digital video. Set in Northern California in 1870, the film details the eventual murder of California's most notorious Indian hunter, Hiram Good. Created over a seven year period by filmmaker Lee Lynch and co-written by art critic Doug Harvey, the film features a diverse set of performers including Los Angeles based artists, western re-enactors, and regional American Indians. 

The screening will be accompanied by a short lecture by historian Richard Burrill, who served as a consultant on the project. Burrill's studies focus on California's Gold Rush Era through the First World War, with a particular interest in California Indian history and culture. Burrill lives in Chico, California, and is a distinguished scholar and author on the subject of Ishi, the last "wild Indian" of North America. In 2010, Burrill published the exhaustive Hi Good Cabin Report, in response to the archaeological dig that took place on the original property of the late Indian hunter. 

Richard Burrill was born in Washington D.C. His interest and passion about California Native American cultures began at an early age. He is an author, educator, and lecturer who has served as an Instructor of Anthropology and Political Science at Feather River College as well as establishing the annual Ishi Gathering and Seminar, which, this year will be in Oroville, California, October 3-5, 2014. He lives in Chico, California, and is a distinguished scholar and author on the subject of Ishi, the last last "wild Indian" of North America. He most recently published, Ishi’s Return Home: The 1914 Anthropological Expedition Story (2014). In 2010, he published the exhaustive Hi Good Cabin Report, in response to the archaeological dig that took place on the original property of the late Indian hunter. In 1994, he published Protectors of the Land (1994), a scholastic resource book on California Indian teachings and ethno-botany. The Human Almanac: People Through Time (1983) is his anthropological reader. In 1989, he started The Anthro Company, his independent publishing company.