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<p>Of the many Native American women who were torn between two cultures on the American frontier, three have captured the popular imagination: Pocahontas, Sacajawea, and Sarah Winnemucca. This is the first full-scale biography of Sarah, the daughter of a Northern Paiute chief in western Nevada.</p> <p>During her short but adventurous life between about 1844 and 1891Sarah Winnemucca worked tirelessly for the physical welfare and education of the Paiutes and all Indians. During a childhood made traumatic by the influx of white settlers and miners, she learned English and Spanish and two Indian languages in addition to her own. Through her work as an interpreter and a scout she eventually became an important political figure among the Indians of her region and traveled to Washington as their representative. Beautiful and persuasive, she appeared as the "Princess" Sarah in theaters and churches, telling the white world about the Paiutes and their problems. Because of her friendship with two Boston intellectual women, Elizabeth Peabody and Mrs. Horace Mann, she was able to publish her autobiography, <i>Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims,</i> one of the first books by a Nati

Author

Canfield, Gae Whitney, 1931-

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9780806177694

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography