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Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims Kindle Edition
Life Among the Piutes is the first known autobiography of a Native American woman.
Compelling and, at times, heartbreaking, Sarah Winnemuca Hopkins’ memoir is both a history of the Piute Indian tribe and an account of the devastation caused to the Piute people after their first contact with white men in the nineteenth century.
Born in 1841, Winnemucca was the granddaughter of Piute chief, Truckee, an early advocate of co-operation between the Indians and European-Americans.
As a result of her grandfather’s relationship with the white authorities in Nevada, Sarah became one of the few Piutes could speak and write English fluently, ensuring she became interpreter between the two groups.
Her unique position allowed her to promote the welfare of the Native American people and protest against their oftentimes shocking treatments at the hands of white people.
Life Among the Piutes is a chronicle of these struggles and the indignities faced by the Piute people. The book also captures the beautiful simplicity of Piute life and is an integral part of Native American history.
“For students of Western American history, this book is invaluable. Rarely do we have firsthand accounts of events of such importance; even more rarely are these accounts written by Native Americans who participated in them; and, still rarer are the accounts written by Native American women.” — Journal of the West
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1844-1891) was a prominent female Piute activist and educator; she helped gain release of her people from the Yakima Reservation following the Bannock War of 1878, lectured widely in the East in 1883 on injustices against Native Americans in the West, established a private school for Indian students in Nevada, and was an influential figure in development of United States' 19th-century Indian policies. She died in 1891.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMay 29, 2017
- File size2261 KB
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“For students of Western American history, this book is invaluable. Rarely do we have firsthand accounts of events of such importance; even more rarely are these accounts written by Native Americans who participated in them; and, still rarer are the accounts written by Native American women.” —Journal of the West
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- ASIN : B071ZLRLFK
- Publisher : Iocaste Press (May 29, 2017)
- Publication date : May 29, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 2261 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 170 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #292,866 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #60 in Native American Studies
- #117 in Native American Biographies
- #136 in Native American History (Kindle Store)
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Ms. Hopkins overcame her fear and became a much-used interpreter between her tribe and the settlers and soldiers who assumed ownership of the land the Piutes had lived on for centuries. The book chronicles not only her personal history, but includes Ms. Hopkins’ struggle with remaining loyal to people who did not always follow through on their promises. It documents the first years of contact between the Piutes and the European American settlers.
The Appendix presents numerous letters from soldiers and citizens, most of them corroborating the information Ms. Hopkins presents in her book. As a historical memoir, this book is considered the first known autobiography by a Native American woman. It should also be thought of as a must-read for any student of American history. Five stars.
I also found it interesting that their origin story had two peoples white and native. Where did the knowledge of white people come from? Did native people really cross the land bridge from Siberia many years ago? Western origin stories based upon the Bible starts with only one people.
I strongly urge all to read this book to get an understanding of the impact of Manifest Destiny on Native Americans.
Thank you Sarah Winnemucca and her tribal member for this book.
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The cover photo appears to be Geronimo and some of his Apache renegades and not Piutes!