Life Among The Piutes : Their Wrongs And Claims /

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This autobiographical work was written by one of the country's most well-known Native American women, Sarah Winnemucca. She was a Paiute princess and a major figure in the history of Nevada; her tribe still resides primarily in the state. Life Among the Piutes deals with Winnemucca's life...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Winnemucca, Sarah, 1844?-1891 (Author)
Other Authors: Blesse, Robert E. (Cover designer), Fowler, Catherine S. (author of foreword.), Mann, Mary Tyler Peabody, 1806-1887 (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Las Vegas : University of Nevada Press, [1994]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hopkins, Sarah Winnemucca, > (1844?-1891)
Winnemucca, Sarah, > 1844?-1891
Winnemucca, Sarah, > 1844?-1891.
Paiute (Indiens) > Biographies.
Paiute Indians.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > State & Local.
Paiute (Indiens)
Paiute Indians > Biography.
Paiute.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Editor's preface
  • Foreword
  • I. First meeting of Piutes and whites
  • II. Domestic and social moralities
  • III. Wars and their causes
  • IV. Captain Truckee's death
  • V. Reservation of Pyramid and Muddy Lakes
  • VI. The Malheur Agency
  • VII. The Bannock War
  • VIII. The Yakima Affair
  • Appendix

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