Ursula K. Le Guin’s parents were Alfred and Theodora Kroeber, two famous anthropologists. Alfred specifically was known for his work at the University of California, Berkeley with Ishi, the last member of the Yana people. Ishi and Alfred developed a close friendship during their time spent together. Theodora notes the reason she is the one who wrote the biography on Ishi’s life was because Alfred found the subject to be too painful to write about. Theodora also began writings months before her daughter, Ursula K. Le Guin, began her own writing career. Le Guin’s fiction can be understood as an investigation of contact between “primitive” peoples living in harmony with the land and a extractive force of modernity; i.e. colonialism. Much of Le Guin’s science fiction has been recognized for its feminist and ecological themes. This blog focuses on the connections between these themes and the anthropological work of her parents, specifically the history and myth of Ishi in, “Ishi in Two Worlds”.