Winnemucca, Sarah, 1844?-1891.

Life among the Piutes : their wrongs and claims / Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins ; edited by Mrs. Horace Mann ; foreword by Catherine S. Fowler. - Reno, Nev. : University of Nevada Press, �1994. - 1 online resource (268 pages) - Vintage West series . - Vintage West series. .

Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam, 1883. With new foreword.

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Editor's Preface; Foreword; I. First Meeting of Piutes and Whites; II. Domestic and Social Moralities; III. Wars and Their Causes; IV. Captain Truckee's Death; V. Reservation of Pyramid and Muddy Lakes; VI. The Malheur Agency; VII. The Bannock War; VIII. 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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