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2023 Oregon Book Award Finalist In 1870 a twenty-six-year-old Paiute, Sarah Winnemucca, wrote to an army officer requesting that Paiutes be given a chance to settle and farm their ancestral land in Oregon Country. The eloquence of her letter was such that it made its way into Harper’s Weekly. Ten years later, as her people languished in confinement as a result of the Bannock War, she convinced Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz to grant the requests in her letter and to free the Paiutes as we
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- Author
- Wilson, Jr., David H.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781496231239
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Social Science, Social Sciences, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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