Life Among the Paiutes - Their Wrongs and Claims

“Oh my dear good Christian people, how long are you going to stand by and see us suffer at your hands?” In this powerful memoir, Northern Paiute writer and civil rights activist Sarah Winnemucca asks her Anglo-American audience to listen to her story and the story of her people. Life Among the Paiutes is a work of nonfiction by Sarah Winnemucca.

About the author

Sarah Winnemucca (1844-1891) was a Northern Paiute educator, activist, and author. Born near Humboldt Lake, Nevada, Winnemucca was raised in an influential Paiute family who sent her to study at a Catholic school in California. During the Paiute War, she fled with her family to San Francisco and Virginia City, where they performed on stage as the "Paiute Royal Family" to make ends meet. After a US Cavalry raid led to the deaths of her mother and several members of her family, Winnemucca dedicated herself to advocating for the rights of Native Americans across the country. When the Bannock War of 1878 led to the imprisonment of the Paiute peoples in a Yakima, Washington concentration camp, Winnemucca made her way to Washington, D. C. to petition Congress and the President on their behalf. Over the next decade, she worked as an interpreter, guide, and social worker for imprisoned Native Americans as well as published a critically acclaimed book. Part memoir, part history, Life Among the Paiutes (1883) is considered a landmark of American literature and is likely the first autobiography written by a Native American woman. Despite her remarkable achievements and tireless advocacy on behalf of her people, Winnemucca is a controversial figure among the Paiute, some of whom view her as an assimilationist who used her status for personal gain.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Winnemucca
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.04.2021
• EAN: 9781513283401
• ISBN: 978-1-5132-8340-1
• No. of pages: 198
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 216 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Mint Editions; Mint Editions—Native Stories, Indigenous Voices; Mint Editions (Native Stories, Indigenous Voices)
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, HISTORY / North America, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Autobiography: historical, political and military, HISTORY / Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, HISTORY / Indigenous / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Indigenous