SOURCE: "The Frontiers of Native American Women's Writing: Sarah Winnemucca's Life among the Piutes," in New Voices in Native American Literary Criticism, edited by Arnold Krupat, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993, pp. 222-52.
In the essay that follows, Georgi-Findlay examines the American frontier experience from the perspective of a Native American woman—Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins—using her Life among the Piutes to discuss the role of gender in such areas as assimilation, Native American/white relations, literary style, and sexual and political power.
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