Life Among the Piutes : : Their Wrongs and Claims
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Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam, 1883. With new foreword.
First meeting of Piutes and Whites -- Domestic and social moralities -- Wars and their causes -- Captain Truckee's death -- Reservation of pyramid and muddy lakes -- The Malheur Agency -- The Bannock War -- The Yakima Affair -- Appendix.
Presents Paiute princess Sarah Winnemucca's 1885 account of her life and circumstances, in which she provides insight into the Native American perspective on the settlement of the West by whites, and discusses her own efforts to preserve the Paiute culture.
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Vintage West series
PUBLISHED
Reno : University of Nevada Press, 1994.
Year Published: 1994
Description: 268 pages ; 18 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0874172527 (pbk.)
9780874172522 (pbk.)
SUBJECTS
Hopkins, Sarah Winnemucca, -- 1844?-1891.
Winnemucca, Sarah, -- 1844?-1891.
Paiute People -- Biography.
Paiute People -- History.
Ojibwe People -- Social life and customs.
Indigenous Peoples of North America.