Indigenous Rhetoric and Survival in the Nineteenth Century A Yurok Woman Speaks Out /

• Main Author: Lowry, Elizabeth Schleber (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: United States-History.; Imperialism.; Civilization-History.; Women.; US History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Cultural History.; Women's Studies.

In 1916, Lucy Thompson, an indigenous woman from Northwestern California, published To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman. The first book to be published by a member of the California Yurok tribe, it offers an autobiographical view of the intricacies of life in the tribe at the dawn...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Reminiscences
• 2. The Sacred and the Profane
• 3. "Christianizing" and "Indigenizing"
• 4. Wilderness and Civilization
• 5. Regeneration.