Editing Ishi (section)

===Death===
Lacking acquired immunity to common diseases, Ishi was often ill. He was treated by Pope, a professor of medicine at UCSF. Pope became a close friend of Ishi, and learned from him how to make bows and arrows in the Yahi way. He and Ishi often hunted together. Ishi died of [[tuberculosis]] on March 25, 1916.<ref name="obit-Sausalito-News">{{cite news |title=Ishi, Last of Old Tribe, Dies |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SN19160401-02.2.22&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |access-date=11 February 2021 |work=Sausalito News |issue=14 |publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection |date=1 April 1916 |volume=32 |location=Sausalito, California |quote=Sitting upon the side of his cot in the insane cell, Ishi, uncertain of his fate, answered "ulsi" (I don't understand) in the language of his tribe, to a broadside of questions in Spanish, English and half a dozen Indian languages. A few weeks later he was taken in charge by the department of anthropology and became a "scientific specimen" at the museum and later assistant janitor. |archive-date=December 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209115044/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SN19160401-02.2.22&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="sfChronicleArchive1916">{{cite news |last1=Miller |first1=Johnny |title=Items have been culled from The Chronicle's archives of 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago. |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/49er-Lott-leaps-to-Raiders-6893701.php |access-date=11 February 2021 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=16 March 2016 |quote=Thin, hungry and clad only in a cast-off undershirt, Ishi was discovered in August 1911, at a slaughterhouse four miles from Oroville. A few weeks later he was taken in charge by the department of anthropology of the University of California and became a "scientific specimen" at the museum and later an assistant janitor. With two twigs Ishi produced fire out of thin air; with nimble fingers he produced monstrous nets; fashioned with flakes of elk antler the finest arrowheads. According to Professor T. T. Waterman, Ishi was one of a small party of survivors who fled to the hills east of Sacramento in 1865 after suffering<!-- !  check for tone !--> almost complete extermination at the hands of an armed band of whites. |archive-date=December 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209115039/https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/49er-Lott-leaps-to-Raiders-6893701.php |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="obit-Journal-Herald-Delaware-Ohio">{{cite news |title=Tribe Now Dead |url=https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p16007coll56/id/1210/ |access-date=11 February 2021 |work=Delaware Daily Journal-Herald |date=1916-06-05 |location=Delaware, Ohio |page=5 |archive-date=September 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230901225833/https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p16007coll56/id/1210/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="obit1916-western-sentinel">{{cite news |title=The Stone Age Man... |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24533661/the-western-sentinel/ |access-date=11 February 2021 |work=The Western Sentinel |date=28 April 1916 |location=Winston-Salem, North Carolina |pages=6 |archive-date=December 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209115040/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24533661/the-western-sentinel/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Olson |first1=Ryan |title=Friday marks 100th anniversary of Ishi's death |url=https://www.chicoer.com/2016/03/25/friday-marks-100th-anniversary-of-ishis-death/ |access-date=11 February 2021 |work=[[Chico Enterprise-Record]] |publisher=MediaNews Group, Inc. |date=25 March 2016 |quote=The story also notes Ishi's emergence near Oroville and how he became a "scientific specimen" and later assistant janitor at the University of California Affiliated Colleges Museum from 1911 to 1916. The museum was located on what is now UC San Francisco's main campus. |archive-date=December 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209115118/https://www.chicoer.com/2016/03/25/friday-marks-100th-anniversary-of-ishis-death/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It is said that his last words were, "You stay. I go."<ref name="Starr2002">{{cite book|author=Kevin Starr|title=The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9HnIh_auw9MC&pg=PA330|year=2002|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-515797-0|page=330|access-date=November 19, 2018|archive-date=September 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230918004812/https://books.google.com/books?id=9HnIh_auw9MC&pg=PA330|url-status=live}}</ref> Kroeber, who was in New York at the time of Ishi's death, tried to prevent an autopsy on his body, sending letters and telegrams strongly stating his objections. He believed Yahi tradition called for the body to remain intact. But Pope performed the autopsy, per hospital protocol.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pope |first=Saxton T. (Saxton Temple) |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8084 |title=Hunting with the Bow & Arrow |date=2005-05-01 |language=English}}</ref>

Ishi's brain was preserved and his body cremated, in the mistaken belief that cremation was the traditional Yahi practice. His friends placed several items with his remains before cremation: "one of his bows, five arrows, a basket of acorn meal, a boxfull of shell bead money, a purse full of tobacco, three rings, and some obsidian flakes." Ishi's remains, in a deerskin-wrapped Pueblo Indian pottery jar, were interred at [[Olivet Gardens of Cypress Lawn Memorial Park|Mount Olivet Cemetery]] in [[Colma, California]], near [[San Francisco]].<ref name="NPS">[https://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/5views/5views1h39.htm "Ishi's Hiding Place", Butte County] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060716172531/https://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/5views/5views1h39.htm |date=July 16, 2006 }}, ''A History of American Indians in California: Historic Sites'', National Park Service, 2004, accessed November 5, 2010</ref> Kroeber sent Ishi's preserved brain to the Smithsonian Institution in 1917. It was held there until August 10, 2000, when the Smithsonian repatriated it to the descendants of the [[Redding Rancheria]] and [[Pit River]] tribes. This was in accordance with the [[National Museum of the American Indian Act]] of 1989 (NMAI).<ref name="SFC">{{cite web |title=Ishi's Kin To Give Him Proper Burial: Indians to bury brain in secret location in state |first=Kevin |last=Fagan |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=August 10, 2000 |page=A-5 |url=https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2000/08/10/MN88399.DTL&ao=all#ixzz1wBvJxpTg |access-date=July 21, 2018 |archive-date=November 29, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111129204716/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2000/08/10/MN88399.DTL&ao=all#ixzz1wBvJxpTg |url-status=live }}</ref> According to Robert Fri, director of the [[National Museum of Natural History]], "Contrary to commonly-held belief, Ishi was not the last of his kind. In carrying out the repatriation process, we learned that as a Yahi–Yana Indian his closest living descendants are the [[Yana people]] of northern California."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://anthropology.si.edu/repatriation/projects/ishi.htm |title=NMNH – Repatriation Office – The Repatriation of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian |publisher=Anthropology.si.edu |access-date=2013-08-11 |archive-date=June 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626141120/https://anthropology.si.edu/repatriation/projects/ishi.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> His remains were also returned from Colma, and the tribal members intended to bury them in a secret place.<ref name="SFC" />