The Women's Review of Books, December 1st, 2001
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 played the stereotypical Indian princess to achieve political ends. She worked as an army scout and interpreter during the Indian wars of the 1860s and 1870s, alienating many Native Americans. At the same time, she incurred the wrath of powerful US government officials for her vocal and persistent at...
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