Ishi - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• 1964, Theodora Kroeber published a shorter, partially fictionalized version of the story as Ishi: Last of His Tribe.
• Lawrence Holcomb published a novel titled The Last Yahi: A Novel About Ishi (2000).
• Ishi: The Last of His Tribe, with Eloy Casados in the title role, telecast on NBC December 20, 1978. The film was written by Christopher Trumbo.
• The Last of His Tribe (1992), with Graham Greene as Ishi, was also produced as a TV movie.
• Jed Riffe created an award-winning documentary film Ishi: The Last Yahi (1992).
• Ishi (2008), a play written by John Fisher, was performed from July 3–27, 2008, at Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco. He also directed it. A review in the San Francisco Chronicle said the work "is a fierce dramatic indictment of the ugliest side of California history."