About Thom Hess Thom Hess was a professor of linguistics at the University of Victoria. Books by Thom Hess Haboo Native American Stories from Puget Sound translated by Vi Hilbert foreword by Jill La Pointe introduction by Thom Hess Tellings from Our Elders Lushootseed syeyehub, Volume 2: Tales from the Skagit Valley by (author) David Beck & Thom Hess Tellings from Our Elders: Lushootseed syeyehub Volume 1: Snohomish Texts by (author) David Beck & Thom Hess as told by Martha Williams Lamont, Elizabeth Charles Krise, Edward Sam & Agnes Jules James Lushootseed Dictionary by (author) Dawn Bates, Thom Hess & Vi Hilbert