Humboldt County Historical Society
To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman
By Lucy Thompson, Che-Na-Wah Weitch-Ah-Wah
This book, first published in 1916, offers an experience of the Yurok culture from the inside, and the opportunity to get to know an amazing woman. Lucy Thompson, a Yurok aristocrat and Talth initiate, recounts her personal and tribal history in wondrous detail, and also with pride and a strong sense of purpose. Her self-assigned task was to explain to her readers the extraordinary Yurok culture and people, a culture and a people she saw vanishing before her eyes.