Lucy Thompson

Lucy Thompson
Lucy Thompson
Born	1856 (1856)
Died	1932 (aged 75–76)
Nationality	Yurok
Known for	Authorship
Notable work	To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman

Lucy Thompson (1856–1932) is an author known for her 1916 To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman.^[1] She wrote the book to preserve her people's stories. The book received the American Book Award decades later.^[2] Outside the book she is known to have come from "Yurok aristocracy" and be married to a white man named Milton "Jim" Thompson. Hence she had some intention to make sympathetic whites understand her people better although she also criticized "whites" for practices like over-fishing.^[3]

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. Retrieved 4 March 2017 – via Google Books. 

External links

• Thompson, Lucy (1991) [1916]. To the American Indian: reminiscences of a Yurok woman. Berkeley, Calif: Heyday Books. ISBN 0930588479. OCLC 779183503.