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Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims

By Hopkins , Sarah , Sarah Winnemucca;Winnemucca

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9788822804648, 8822804643
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
491 kB (502860 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1844?-1891;Paiute Indians -- BiographyPaiute Indians;Biographies;Electronic books;WinnemSarah

Description

Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (c. 1844 - 1891) was a Northern Paiute author, activist and educator. Winnemucca published Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (1883), a book that is both a memoir and history of her people during their first 40 years of contact with European Americans. It is considered the "first known autobiography written by a Native American woman." Anthropologist Omer Stewart described it as "one of the first and one of the most enduring ethnohistorical books written by an American Indian," frequently cited by scholars. Following the publication of the book, Winnemucca toured the Eastern United States, giving lectures about her people in New England, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. She returned to the West, founding a private school for Native American children in Lovelock, Nevada.

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