<p>The Saga of Lucy Young, a Wailaki Indian girl, who, in 1862, when she was around 10 years old, fled from soldiers and from white men who trafficked in Indian children. In 1939, when Lucy was in her 90s, she told her story to her neighbor in Covelo, the ethnobotanist Edith Van Allen Murphey. Lucy Young wanted the truth to be told. "Grandfather's Dream": Part 1 of 7</p>

The Saga of Lucy Young, a Wailaki Indian girl, who, in 1862, when she was around 10 years old, fled from soldiers and from white men who trafficked in Indian children. In 1939, when Lucy was in her 90s, she told her story to her neighbor in Covelo, the ethnobotanist Edith Van Allen Murphey. Lucy Young wanted the truth to be told. "Grandfather's Dream": Part 1 of 7

Lucy Young, Round Valley: A True Indian Story, Part 1 of 7 "Grandfather's Dream"

Linda Pack reads episodes of her immensely popular public radio program Mendocino County Remembered. She edits and interprets selections from the oral histories collected and published under the auspices of the Mendocino Historical Society for the American Bicentennial in 1976. A new episode every Sunday.

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Lucy Young, Round Valley: A True Indian Story, Part 1 of 7 "Grandfather's Dream"

Lucy Young, Round Valley: A True Indian Story, Part 1 of 7 "Grandfather's Dream"