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Name: Sarah Winnemucca
Birth Date: c. 1844
Death Date: October 16, 1891
Place of Birth: Nevada, United States
Place of Death: Henry's Lake, Idaho, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Native American
Gender: Female
Occupations: teacher, Native American/self-government/tribal sovereignty activist, interpreter/translator, public speaker

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Biography of Sarah Winnemucca
2,338 words, approx. 8 pages
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...
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Biography of 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 for Indians. Sarah Winnemucca was a skilled...


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Winnemucca, Sarah Summary
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Born c. 1844 Near Humboldt Lake, in Nevada Died October 16, 1891 Henry's Lake, Idaho Native American rights advocate, author, interpreter, and...
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Sarah Winnemucca Information
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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...


News and Journals
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Montana; The Magazine of Western History
Sarah Winnemucca
04/01/2002: 628 words, approx. 2 pages
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...
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The Women's Review of Books
A legend and her legacy: Sarah Winnemucca. (book review)
12/01/2001: 1,604 words, approx. 5 pages
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,...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Brigitte Georgi-Findlay
9,617 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following excerpt, Georgi-Findlay explores Winnemucca 's Life among the Piutes as it presents the role of gender in Indian-white relations.
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Critical Essay by Catherine S. Fowler
4,959 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay. Fowler offers an ethnological study of Winnemucca as a figure who attempted to assimilate with white culture.
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Critical Essay by William C. Strange
4,703 words, approx. 16 pages
In the following essay, Strange considers Winnemucca's Life among the Piutes as a work filled with personal resonances.
 


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