SOURCE: "The Preliterate Traditions at Work: White Bull, Two Leggings, and Sarah Winnemucca," in American Indian Autobiography, University of California Press, 1988, pp. 48-71.
In the following excerpt Brumble considers two contrasting Native American autobiographies—Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior and Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins' Life among the Piutes—and examines the contexts in which each were composed, edited, and published.
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