Legacy and Honors
- Parker's career and impact on contemporary Native Americans is described in Chapter 8 of Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
- He is said to have helped found the town of Parker, Arizona. Another individual with the surname of Parker is credited with this distinction as well.
- Asa-Like Twocrow played Ely Parker in Stephen Spielberg's 2012 movie Lincoln.
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