Life Among the Piutes

Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins

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Life Among the Paiutes is considered the "first known autobiography written by a Native American woman." This is both an autobiog...

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Life Among the Paiutes is considered the "first known autobiography written by a Native American woman." This is both an autobiographic memoir and history of the Paiute people during their first forty years of contact with European Americans. It Anthropologist Omer Stewart described it as "one of the first and one of the most enduring ethnohistorical books written by an American Indian." Contents: 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