Life Among the Paiutes
1883 book by Sarah Winnemucca / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims is a book that was written by Sarah Winnemucca in 1883.[1] It is both an autobiographic memoir and a history of the Paiute people during their first forty years of contact with European Americans. It is considered the "first known autobiography written by a Native American woman."[1] 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.[2] Winnemucca wrote Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims while she was doing lectures on the East Coast of the United States, advocating in the English language for the rights of the Northern Paiute people,[3] and she was assisted in the funding, editing, and publishing of the book by sisters Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and Mary Peabody Mann.[4]
Author | Sarah Winnemucca |
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Genre | Memoir |
Published | 1883 |
Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
Pages | 268 |