Winnemucca, Sarah
Born c. 1844
Near Humboldt Lake, in Nevada
Died October 16, 1891
Henry's Lake, Idaho
Native American rights advocate, author, interpreter, and lecturer
Sarah Winnemucca. (...
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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...
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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...
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In the following excerpt Canfield recounts the circumstances that led to the writing of Sarah Hopkins Winnemucca's autobiography, and the political views Winnemucca expressed in her numerous le...
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In the following essay. Fowler offers an ethnological study of Winnemucca as a figure who attempted to assimilate with white culture.
Sarah Winnemucca is a historical figure whose life and works ha...
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In the following excerpt, Ruoff discusses the influence of Winnemucca's autobiography Life among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims.
Hostile government policies and public attitudes created...
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In the following excerpt, Brumble contends that Winnemucca was not aware of contemporary literary models in her writing of Life among the Piutes, but rather adapted Paiute oral conventions to the pers...
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In the following excerpt, Ruoff evaluates Life among the Piutes by comparing it to other American Indian autobiographies and slave narratives of the same period.
One of the few Indian autobiographi...
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In the following essay, Strange considers Winnemucca's Life among the Piutes as a work filled with personal resonances.
Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims was published in Boston...
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In the following excerpt, Sands examines the intent and technique of Winnemucca 's Life among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims.
One of the earliest written autobiographies by an American ...
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In the following excerpt, Georgi-Findlay explores Winnemucca 's Life among the Piutes as it presents the role of gender in Indian-white relations.
The study of the history, literature, and p...
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Winnemucca, Sarah
Sarah Winnemucca
Sarah Winnemucca
Critical Essay by Gae Whitney Canfield
