Brook Thompson will read from and discuss her book "I Love Salmon and Lampreys." This nonfiction picture book is about the true story of an Indigenous-led environmental-justice movement in the Klamath River area.
Brook Thompson is from the Yurok (pronounced like "Yur-rock") and Karuk (pronounced like "Car-rook") Native American Tribes of Northern California. Miss Thompson is an author, scientist, engineer, activist, artist and a Ph.D. student at University of California Santa Cruz. She also has a college science degrees in engineering from Stanford University and Portland State University. Miss Thompson grew up in Klamath, California and Portland, Oregon. Her book is a true story about her life growing up along the Klamath River and her tribe's connection to salmon and lampreys when she was young.
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