Life among the Piutes : their wrongs and claims
1994
Book
Presents Paiute princess Sarah Winnemucca's 1885 account of her life and circumstances, in which she provides insight into the Native American perspective on the settlement of the West by whites, and discusses her own efforts to preserve the Paiute culture
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780874172522
- 0874172527
Description: 268 pages ; 18 cm.
Notes: Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam, 1883. With new foreword.
Contents:
- First meeting of Piutes and Whites
- Domestic and social moralities
- Wars and their causes
- Captain Truckee's death
- Reservation of pyramid and muddy lakes
- The Malheur Agency
- The Bannock War
- The Yakima Affair
- Appendix.
LCCN: 94029835
Control Number: 52711
Publisher: Reno : University of Nevada Press, [1994]