To the American Indian (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Yurok Woman's Memoir of Native California Culture, Colonial Dispossession, and Indigenous MemoryBy Lucy Thompson
Length8h 7m
About this audiobook
To the American Indian is a remarkable early twentieth-century Indigenous memoir and cultural testimony, blending autobiography, ethnography, moral reflection, and political address. Lucy Thompson records Yurok social life, ceremonies, law, marriage customs, spiritual beliefs, and the devastating consequences of colonial intrusion. Its prose is direct, didactic, and elegiac, situated between Native oral tradition and the written forms of missionary, reformist, and anthropological literature then shaping public ideas of American Indians. Lucy Thompson, also known as Che-na-wah Weitch-ah-wah, was a Yurok woman from northern California who wrote from lived experience rather than distant observation. Born in the mid-nineteenth century, she witnessed the transformation of Native homelands under settler violence, disease, dispossession, and assimilationist pressure. Her book responds to misrepresentation by asserting cultural authority and preserving knowledge for both Native descendants and non-Native readers. This work is essential for readers interested in Indigenous literature, California history, women's authorship, and the politics of memory. Thompson's voice is at once personal and communal, corrective and commemorative. To the American Indian rewards careful reading as a rare Native-authored account that challenges stereotypes while safeguarding a world colonial history sought to erase.
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Rating★★★★ 3.9 (50)
Includes Goodreads
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 6, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1To the American Indian (Annotated)
24CHAPTER XXI.
2PREFACE.
25CHAPTER XXII.
3CHAPTER I.
26CHAPTER XXIII.
4MARRIAGE
27CHAPTER XXIV.
5CHAPTER II.
28CHAPTER XXV.
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6CHAPTER III.
29CHAPTER XXVI.
7CHAPTER IV.
30CHAPTER XXVII.
8CHAPTER V.
31CHAPTER XXVIII.
9CHAPTER VI.
32CHAPTER XXIX.
10CHAPTER VII.
33CHAPTER XXX.
11CHAPTER VIII.
34CHAPTER XXXI.
12CHAPTER IX.
35CHAPTER XXXII.
13CHAPTER X.
36CHAPTER XXXIII.
14CHAPTER XI.
37WHAT HAPPENED TO TWO MA-REEP GIRLS
15CHAPTER XII.
38THE ADVENTURES OF A COYOTE.
16CHAPTER XIII.
39A BEAR STORY.
17CHAPTER XIV.
40THE WOOING OF ROBIN RED-BREAST.
18CHAPTER XV.
41DR. BEAR AND MRS. SKUNK.
19CHAPTER XVI.
42HOW THE ANIMALS CONQUERED THE MOON.
20CHAPTER XVII.
43THE ACORN.
21CHAPTER XVIII.
44THE BLUE JAY.
22CHAPTER XIX.
45THE MOURNFUL COO OF THE DOVE.
23CHAPTER XX.
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