Sarah Winnemucca's Life among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (1883) is generally acknowledged to be the first autobiography by a Native American woman. She formed an alliance with two New England activists and educators -- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody...
Sarah Winnemucca (ca. 1844-1891) was active as a peacemaker, teacher, and defender of the rights of Native Americans. She published Life among the Paiutes, Their Wrongs and Claims and founded a school for Indians. Sarah Winnemucca was a skilled...
Sarah Winnemucca (born Thocmentony, Paiute: Shell Flower) (ca. 1841 – October 17, 1891) was notable for being the first Native American woman known to secure a copyright and to publish in the English language. She was also known by her married...
Sarah Winnemucca University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2001. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. xi + 366. $29.95. Like many biographies, Sarah Winnemucca engages in unabashed adulation of its subject. Expanding on the researches of previous biographers (there have been two other full-length...
Sally Zanjani, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2001, 366 pp., $29.95 hardcover. Srah Winnemucca was on of the most visible and complicated Native American intellectuals of the nineteenth century. Educated among Euro-Americans as well as within her Paiute community in Nevada, Winnemucca...
