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==Representation in popular culture== ===Films=== * ''[[Ishi: The Last of His Tribe]]'', aired December 20, 1978, on [[NBC]], with [[Eloy Casados]] as Ishi, written by [[Christopher Trumbo]] and [[Dalton Trumbo]], and directed by [[Robert Ellis Miller]].<ref name=venturabreeze>{{cite news|title=Local Screenwriter Dies |url=https://ventura.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=47312 |website=ventura.edhat.com |date=January 20, 2011 |access-date=January 26, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206123138/https://ventura.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=47312 |archive-date=February 6, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Robert Ellis |title=Ishi: The Last of His Tribe |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077750/ |publisher=Edward & Mildred Lewis Productions |date=20 December 1978 |access-date=February 11, 2021 |archive-date=March 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210322133852/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077750/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * ''[[The Last of His Tribe]]'' (1992), with [[Graham Greene (actor)|Graham Greene]] as Ishi, is a [[Home Box Office]] movie.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Last of his Tribe|url=https://www.ahafilm.info/movies/moviereviews.phtml?fid=6335|publisher=ahafilm|access-date=December 11, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070301025117/http://www.ahafilm.info/movies/moviereviews.phtml?fid=6335|archive-date=March 1, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Hook |first1=Harry |title=The Last of His Tribe |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104690/ |publisher=Home Box Office (HBO), River City Productions Inc. |access-date=11 February 2021 |date=28 March 1992 |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126053946/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104690/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * ''Ishi: The Last Yahi'' (1993), is a documentary film by [[Jed Riffe]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jedriffefilms.com/ |title=Jed Riffe Films + electronic Media |publisher=Jedriffefilms.com |access-date=2013-08-11 |archive-date=July 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722011347/https://jedriffefilms.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110713094848/https://www.jedriffefilms.com/jedriffe-oldsite/flvplayer/ishi.html ''Ishi: The Last Yahi'' (1992)] documentary synopsis</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Riffe |first1=Jed |last2=Roberts |first2=Pamela |title=Ishi: The Last Yahi |website=[[IMDb]] |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104531 |access-date=11 February 2021 |date=25 April 1993 |archive-date=March 20, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320130046/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104531/ |url-status=live }}</ref><!-- {{IMDb title|0104531|Ishi: The Last Yahi (1992)}} --> * ''In Search of History: Ishi, the Last of His Kind'' (1998), television documentary about him.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Fincke |first1=SueAnn |title=Ishi, the Last of His Kind |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1045133/ |publisher=MPH Entertainment Productions, History Channel (US) (TV) |access-date=11 February 2021 |archive-date=July 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220722164459/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1045133/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ===Literature=== <!-- alphabetical by last name --> * {{cite book |last1=Apperson |first1=Eva Marie Englent |title="We Knew Ishi" |date=1971 |publisher=Walker Lithograph Co. |location=[[Red Bluff, California]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A-tlygAACAAJ |language=en}} ** daughter-in-law of "One-Eyed" Jack Apperson, who in 1908, [[Looting|sacked]] Ishi's Yahi village * {{cite book |last1=Collins |first1=David R. |last2=Bergren |first2=Kristen |title=Ishi: The Last of His People |publisher=Morgan Reynolds |location=Greensboro, NC |isbn=978-1-883846-54-1 |date=2000 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CpkMAAAACAAJ |oclc=43520986}} (Young Adult Biography)<ref>{{cite web |title=Morgan Reynolds |url=https://publishersarchive.com/publisher.php?pub_id=11063 |website=Book Publishing Directory |access-date=8 April 2021 |archive-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016151330/https://publishersarchive.com/publisher.php?pub_id=11063 |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[Theodora Kroeber|Kroeber]] wrote about Ishi in two books: ** {{cite book |last1= Kroeber|first1= Theodora |author-link1= Theodora Kroeber |last2= Kroeber|first2= Karl |title= Ishi in Two Worlds: a biography of the last wild Indian in North America |year= 2002 |publisher= University of California Press|location= Berkeley|isbn= 978-0-520-22940-2 |oclc= 50805975 }}<ref>{{cite web |title=Indian Lands |url=https://nature.berkeley.edu/departments/espm/env-hist/ca-bib/indian.html |website=nature.berkeley.edu |access-date=13 February 2021 |archive-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025174110/https://nature.berkeley.edu/departments/espm/env-hist/ca-bib/indian.html |url-status=live }}</ref> *** A mass-market, second-hand account of Ishi's life story, published in 1961, after the death of her husband Alfred, who had worked with Ishi, but had refused to write or talk about him. ** ''Ishi: Last of His Tribe''. Illus. Ruth Robbins. (1964). [[Houghton Mifflin|Parnassus Press]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Finding Aid to the Parnassus Press records, 1930–1989 (bulk 1955–1978) |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/k61v5bw1/ |website=oac.cdlib.org |access-date=13 February 2021 |quote=A beacon of publishing and children's literature on the West Coast, the complete catalog of the Parnassus Press were sold to Houghton Mifflin in 1979. |archive-date=August 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802114415/https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/k61v5bw1/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Publisher: Parnassus Press |url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?367 |website=isfdb.org |access-date=13 February 2021 |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220111015307/http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?367 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Berkeley, California]]. *** a juvenile fiction version of his life.<ref name="nytimes-1964-Books">{{cite news |title=New Books for Young Readers; ISHI: Last of His Tribe. By Theodora Kroeber. Illustrated by Ruth Robbins. 211 pp. Berkeley, Calif.: Parnassus Press |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/11/08/archives/new-books-for-young-readers-ishi-last-of-his-tribe-by-theodora.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=13 February 2021 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=8 November 1964 |archive-date=September 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230901223841/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/11/08/archives/new-books-for-young-readers-ishi-last-of-his-tribe-by-theodora.html |url-status=live }}</ref> ** ''Ishi the Last Yahi: A Documentary History'' (1981), edited by [[Robert Heizer]] and Theodora Kroeber, contains additional scholarly materials<ref>{{cite book |title=Ishi the Last Yahi: A Documentary History |author=Heizer, Robert F. |author2=Kroeber, Theodora |date=1981 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0520043664 |url=https://archive.org/details/ishilastyahidocu00heizrich }}</ref> * {{cite book |last1= Merton |first1= Thomas |author-link1= Thomas Merton |title= Ishi Means Man |series= Unicorn keepsake series |volume= 8|year= 1976 |publisher= Unicorn Press |location= Greensboro, N.C. }} ;Novels * Othmar Franz Lang. ''Meine Spur löscht der Fluss''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Meine Spur löscht der Fluss|last=Lang|first=Othmar Franz|publisher=Benziger Verlag|year=1978|isbn=978-3545330726|location=Köln and Zürich}}</ref> (young adult novel in German) *Lawrence Holcomb. ''The Last Yahi: A Novel About Ishi''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Holcomb, Lawrence|title= The Last Yahi: A Novel About Ishi|date=2000|publisher= iUniverse|isbn=978-0595127665}}</ref> ===Stage productions=== * ''Ishi'' (2008), a play written and directed by John Fisher, was performed from July 3–27, 2008, at [[Theatre Rhinoceros]] in San Francisco. The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' review said the work "is a fierce dramatic indictment of the ugliest side of California history."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/13/DDHF11MJSU.DTL|author=Hurwitt, Robert|title=''Ishi'', Gripping Drama at Theatre Rhino|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=July 14, 2008|access-date=July 21, 2018|archive-date=January 27, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127160652/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/13/DDHF11MJSU.DTL|url-status=live}}</ref> ===Music=== Depicted in the video for "Blue Train Lines," a song by [[Mount Kimbie]] and [[King Krule]]. The video follows the story of the two anthropologists falling out. One proceeds to sell all of Ishi's possessions on eBay.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 21, 2017 |title=Mount Kimbie and share their video for 'Blue Train Lines' featuring King Krule |url=https://diymag.com/2017/07/21/mount-kimbie-king-krule-new-video-blue-train-lines-watch |access-date=2022-11-21 |website=DIY magazine |language=en |archive-date=December 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221201103837/https://diymag.com/2017/07/21/mount-kimbie-king-krule-new-video-blue-train-lines-watch |url-status=live }}</ref> ===Comics=== * Osamu Tezuka: ''The story of Ishi the primitive man,'' (first appeared in Weekly-Shonen-Sunday, Shogakkan in Japan, issue of October 20, 1975, total 44 pages).
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