Thompson, Lucy 1856-1932 creator text utu 2022 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "To the American Indian" by Lucy Thompson is a book published in 1916. Written by a Yurok woman, it preserves her people's stories through thirty-two chapters combining Yurok and English. Thompson describes spiritual practices, including the rigorous ceremonies for becoming a Talth, a spiritual leader. She explains cultural traditions around tobacco cultivation and smoking. The book also discusses Yurok ki-elth, a form of servitude distinct from chattel slavery, where impoverished families sought refuge with wealthier households during times of hardship. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_American_Indian Release date is 2022-01-02 Mary Glenn Krause, Charlene Taylor, Robert Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Originally published: United States: Mrs. Lucy Thompson, 1916 Yurok Indians Klamath Indians E011 GT United States: Mrs. Lucy Thompson, 1916 https://archive.org/details/toamericanindian00thomrich https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67084 https://archive.org/details/toamericanindian00thomrich https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67084 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134540.0 67084