http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_L._Kroeber
Alfred Louis Kroeber (June 11, 1876 – October 5, 1960) was an American cultural anthropologist. He received his Ph.D. under Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1901, the first doctorate in anthropology awarded by Columbia. And he was the first professor appointed to the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He played an integral role in the early days of its Museum of Anthropology, where he served as director from 1909 through 1947. Kroeber provided detailed information about Ishi, the last surviving member of the Yana people, whom he studied over a period of years. . . . The anthropology department's headquarters building at the University of California is named Kroeber Hall in his honor
In 1926 he married again, to Theodora Krakow Brown, a widow whom he met as a student in one of his graduate seminars.[1] They had two children: Karl Kroeber, later an anthropologist, and Ursula, who is notable as the writer Ursula K. Le Guin. . . .
He is noted for working with Ishi, who was claimed to be the last California Yahi Indian. (Ishi may have been of mixed ethnic heritage, with a father from the Wintu, Maidu or Nomlaki tribes.) His second wife, Theodora Krakow Kroeber, also an anthropologist, wrote a well-known biography of Ishi, Ishi in Two Worlds. Kroeber's relationship with Ishi was the subject of a film, The Last of His Tribe (1992), starring Jon Voigt as Kroeber.
http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2011/11/bookmarks_endeavour_award_occu.html
A lot of writers have voiced their support for the Occupy Wall Street movement, individually and on occupywriters.com. Some of them have written essays or reports from the field, and some of them, not surprisingly, are from Oregon. Ursula K. Le Guin contributed a short post, written before the parks in downtown Portland were cleared.
http://occupywriters.com/works/by-ursula-le-guin
A Small Update from What I Have Been Able to Observe
What seems rather different about the Portland camp is that from the start, inevitably, it’s had to deal with and share space with a camp set up by homeless people right next to it as a kind of annex. Portland is more tolerant of the homeless than many cities and there’s a large population of them downtown. So far the two camps have managed to coexist pretty cheerfully. The homeless presence confuses the Occupiers’ message for some people, but reinforces it powerfully for others. Our mayor has been very Taoist in handling the whole business, gracefully evading decisions and ultimatums, then going off to China…. So far, so good! Having a huge urban university just up the street as a supply of young, unwearied relay Occupiers is helpful.
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