![]() It seems the family is inextricably tied to Ishi, the man said to have been the last North American Indian roaming the wilds. Scott Kroeber, Clifton’s son, about the Native American once called “the wild man of Mt. ![]() Fellow police officers sometimes ask LAPD Capt. Le Guin, also deflects questions about Ishi that come up at readings of her bestselling science fiction books. After all, by what right does a privileged California clan represent a persecuted Indian simply because their father was the anthropologist who studied him and their mother, Theodora Kroeber, wrote a book that made him famous?īut that logic hasn’t stopped people from quizzing the pair’s sons, Karl and Clifton Kroeber. In the 92 years since the so-called last wild Indian was found cowering in an Oroville slaughterhouse, Alfred Kroeber’s descendants have resisted speaking for him. ![]()
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