Lucy Thompson

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Lucy Thompson
Lucy Thompson
Lucy Thompson
Born
Che-Na-Wah Weitch-Ah-Wah

1853 (1853)
Pek-won Village, California
DiedFebruary 23, 1932
Eureka, California
NationalityYurok
Known forAuthorship
Notable work
To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman

Lucy Thompson (1853-1932) was a Native American author known for her book To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman.[1] Written in 1916, the book is intended to preserve her people's stories. The book received the American Book Award decades later in 1992.[2] Thompson was born in the Klamath River village of Pecwan. Outside the book she is known to have come from "Yurok aristocracy" and to be married to Milton "Jim" Thompson. She intended to tell the stories of her people that were not being told by others, and to make others better understand her people and perspective, although she also criticized "whites" for practices like over-fishing.[3] Thompson expressed that violence towards indigenous Californians were deliberate acts of genocide and she expressed concern for the continued stewardship of Klamath River salmon.[4][5]

References[]

  1. ^ Thompson, Lucy (1 January 1991). "To the American Indian : reminiscences of a Yurok woman". Berkeley, CA : Heyday Books in conjunction with P.E. Palmquist. Retrieved 4 March 2017 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ ipl2. "Lucy Thompson on Native American Authors". ipl.org. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  3. ^ Matthews, Clifford N.; Tucker, Mary Evelyn; Hefner, Philip J. (1 January 2002). When Worlds Converge: What Science and Religion Tell Us about the Story of the Universe and Our Place in it. Open Court Publishing. ISBN 9780812694512. Retrieved 4 March 2017 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "'To the American Indian' turns 100". Retrieved 2017-11-19.
  5. ^ Buckley, Thomas (2002). Standing Ground: Yurok Indian Spirituality, 1850-1990. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520233898.

Bibliography[]

  • 4. Pilling, Arnold R. "Thompson: To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman." Https://Escholarship.org/Uc/Item/39z7q5cf, Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, 14(2), 7 Jan. 1992.

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