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Life Among the Piutes
1883 book by Sarah Winnemucca
Title page for Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (1883) | |
| Author | Sarah Winnemucca |
|---|---|
| Genre | Memoir |
| Published | 1883 |
| Publisher | G.P.
Putnam's Sons |
| Pages | 268 |
Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims is a book that was written by Sarah Winnemucca in 1883.[1] It is both an autobiographic memoir and a history of the Paiute people during their first forty years of contact with European Americans.
It is considered the "first known autobiography written by a Native American woman."[1] Anthropologist Omer Stewart described it as "one of the first and one of the most enduring ethnohistorical books written by an American Indian," frequently cited by scholars.[2] Winnemucca wrote Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims while she was delivering lectures on the East Coast of the United States, advocating in the English language for the rights of the Northern