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==Legacy and honors== * ''The Last Yahi Indian'' Historical landmark, Oro Quincy Highway & Oak Avenue, Oroville, CA 95966<ref name="ohp.parks.ca.gov-809">{{cite web |title=Discovery Site of the Last Yahi Indian |url=http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/listedresources/Detail/809 |website=CA State Parks |access-date=15 February 2021 |language=en |archive-date=February 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228123449/https://ohp.parks.ca.gov/ListedResources/Detail/809 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="noehill-cal0809">{{cite web |title=California Historical Landmark 809: Last Yahi Indian in California, 2547 Oroville-Quincy Highway Oroville |url=https://noehill.com/butte/cal0809.asp |website=noehill.com |access-date=15 February 2021 |archive-date=October 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020000610/https://noehill.com/butte/cal0809.asp |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Last Yahi Indian |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=100601 |website=Historical Marker Database |access-date=15 February 2021 |archive-date=October 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018180901/https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=100601 |url-status=live }}</ref> * Ishi is revered by [[flintknappers]] as probably one of the last two native stone toolmakers in North America. His techniques are widely imitated by knappers. [[Ethnographic]] accounts of his toolmaking are considered to be the [[Rosetta Stone]] of [[lithic technology|lithic tool manufacture]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Whittaker|first=John|title=American flintknappers: Stone Age art in the age of computers|year=2004|publisher=University of Texas}}</ref> * Kroeber and Waterman's 148 [[wax cylinder]] recordings (totaling 5 hours and 41 minutes) of Ishi speaking, singing, and telling stories in the Yahi language were selected by the [[Library of Congress]] as a 2010 addition to the [[National Recording Registry]]. This is an annual selection of recordings that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/recording-registry/registry-by-induction-years/2010/ | title=The National Recording Registry 2010 | access-date=April 10, 2011 | publisher=Library of Congress | archive-date=March 28, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150328062731/http://www.loc.gov/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/recording-registry/registry-by-induction-years/2010/ | url-status=live }}</ref> * Writer and critic [[Gerald Vizenor]] led a campaign to have the courtyard in [[Dwinelle Hall]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] renamed as "Ishi Court".<ref name="Lee2000">{{cite book|last=Samson|first=Colin |title=Loosening the Seams: Interpretations of Gerald Vizenor|chapter= Overturning the Burdens of the Real: Nationalism and the social sciences in Gerald Vizenor's recent works|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pWF8uVgr0lsC&pg=PA288|year=2000|publisher=Bowling Green State University Popular Press|editor= Lee, A. Robert|location=Bowling Green, OH|isbn=978-0-87972-802-1|pages=288}}</ref> * The [[Ishi Wilderness Area]] in northeastern California, believed to be the ancestral grounds of his tribe, is named in his honor. * [[Ishi Giant]], an exceptionally large [[giant sequoia]] discovered by naturalist Dwight M. Willard in 1993, is named in his honor. * Ishi was the subject of a portrait relief sculpture by Thomas Marsh in his 1990 work, Called to Rise, featuring twenty such panels of noteworthy San Franciscans, on the facade of the 25-story high-rise at 235 Pine Street, San Francisco.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.artandarchitecture-sf.com/called-to-rise.html | title=Called to Rise | publisher=Public Art and Architecture from Around the World | access-date=December 26, 2018 | archive-date=June 25, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625005955/http://www.artandarchitecture-sf.com/called-to-rise.html | url-status=live }}</ref> * Anthropologists at the University of California, Berkeley wrote a letter in 1999 apologizing for Ishi's treatment.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.dailycal.org/2017/09/01/uc-berkeley-looks-back-on-dark-history-abuse-of-yahi-man-106-years-later/ | title=UC Berkeley looks back on dark history, abuse of Yahi man 106 years later | date=September 2017 | access-date=August 30, 2019 | publisher=The Daily Californian | archive-date=August 30, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830165200/https://www.dailycal.org/2017/09/01/uc-berkeley-looks-back-on-dark-history-abuse-of-yahi-man-106-years-later/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
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