Book Description
Describes the life of a Paiute woman who worked as an interpreter, scout, and spokesperson for her tribe in Washington
Author : Gae Whitney Canfield
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 33,64 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806120904
Describes the life of a Paiute woman who worked as an interpreter, scout, and spokesperson for her tribe in Washington
Author : Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
Publisher : G.P Putnam's Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
Author : Jodie Shull
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822587793
Sarah Winnemucca, a Northern Plains Indian, lived in the last half of the nineteenth century when white settlers were moving west into land the Paiutes had inhabited for thousands of years. Sarah's grandfather encouraged her to learn the ways of the white settlers, including their language. As a result, she was instrumental in negotiating benefits for her people. She traveled across the country speaking about the plight of the Paiutes. She challenged reservation agents, cooperated with the U.S. Army, and traveled to Washington D.C. to meet with Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz and President Rutherford B. Hayes. With the help of two East Coast women, she wrote a book about Paiute life and established a school for Paiute children.
Author : Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 2015-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0803276613
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (Northern Paiute) has long been recognized as an important nineteenth-century American Indian activist and writer. Yet her acclaimed performances and speaking tours across the United States, along with the copious newspaper articles that grew out of those tours, have been largely ignored and forgotten. The Newspaper Warrior presents new material that enhances public memory as the first volume to collect hundreds of newspaper articles, letters to the editor, advertisements, book reviews, and editorial comments by and about Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins. This anthology gathers together her literary production for newspapers and magazines from her 1864 performances in San Francisco to her untimely death in 1891, focusing on the years 1879 to 1887, when Winnemucca Hopkins gave hundreds of lectures in the eastern and western United States; published her book, Life among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (1883); and established a bilingual school for Native American children. Editors Cari M. Carpenter and Carolyn Sorisio masterfully assemble these exceptional and long-forgotten articles in a call for a deeper assessment and appreciation of Winnemucca Hopkins's stature as a Native American author, while also raising important questions about the nature of Native American literature and authorship.
Author : Gae W. Canfield
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : pages
File Size : 12,5 MB
Release : 1988-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781417727469
Author : Ellen Scordato
Publisher : Chelsea House Publications
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 30,98 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780791016961
Sarah Winnemucca, a northern Paiute and a passionate crusader for Indians rights, served her people as interpreter, educators, and spokeswoman. Born in 1844 in what is now the state of Nevada, Winnemucca obtained an education, learning English, and become an eloquent ambassador between the tribal and the non Indian worlds.
Author : Sarah Winnemucca
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 37,62 MB
Release : 2021-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1513288423
Life Among the Paiutes (1883) is a book by Sarah Winnemucca. Written toward the end of a lifetime of advocacy on behalf of Native Americans, Life Among the Paiutes is a hybrid work of history and memoir by Sarah Winnemucca, who witnessed firsthand the dangers of unchecked occupation by US government and military forces. Intended as a rallying cry to white Americans, Life Among the Paiutes is considered the first autobiographical work written by a woman of Native American heritage. Oh my dear good Christian people, how long are you going to stand by and see us suffer at your hands?” First and foremost, Winnemucca’s groundbreaking text is intended for an Anglo-American audience, whose political status the author hopes to use as a means of bringing her message to the halls of Congress. In the memoir section, Winnemucca describes her upbringing among the Northern Paiute in Nevada, whose lives were irrevocably disrupted by incursions from white settlers and military raids. After the murder of her mother and several members of her family by the US Cavalry, Winnemucca dedicated herself to social work and activism, using her knowledge of the English language to reach a larger audience. Weaving her own story into the story of her people, Winnemucca makes a compelling case for the reparation of land and sovereignty to the Northern Paiutes, who had been devastated and dispersed for decades after making contact with American settlers. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sarah Winnemucca’s Life Among the Paiutes is a classic work of Native American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Author : Sally Zanjani
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803299214
In 1883 she produced her autobiography - the first written by a Native American woman. Using private contributions, she returned to Nevada and founded a Native school whose educational practices and standards were far ahead of its time. [This book is] composed not only of public challenges and accomplishments but also of private struggles, joys, and ambitions. Unforgettable glimpses of her personality and private life leap from these pages: her notorious sharp tongue and wit, her love of performance, her place in a legendary family of Paiute leaders, her long string of failed relationships, and, at the end, possible poisoning by a romantic rival."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Deborah Kogan Ray
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 36,58 MB
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1466816643
Born into the Northern Paiute tribe of Nevada in 1844, Sarah Winnemucca straddled two cultures: the traditional life of her people, and the modern ways of her grandfather's white friends. Sarah was smart and good at languages, so she was able to link the worlds. As she became older, this made her a great leader. Sarah used condemning letters, fiery speeches, and her autobiography, Life Among the Piutes, to provide detailed accounts of her people's turmoil through years of starvation, unjust relocations, and violent attacks. With sweeping illustrations and extensive backmatter, including hand-drawn maps, a chronology, archival photographs, an author's notes, and additional resource information, Deborah Kogan Ray offers a remarkable look at an underrepresented historical figure.
Author : Frances E. Karttunen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813520315
Spanning the globe and the centuries, Frances Karttunen tells the stories of sixteen men and women who served as interpreters and guides to conquerors, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, and anthropologists. These interpreters acted as uncomfortable bridges between two worlds; their own marginality, the fact that they belonged to neither world, suggests the complexity and tension between cultures meeting for the first time. Some of the guides were literally dragged into their roles; others volunteered. The most famous ones were especially skilled at living in two worlds and surviving to recount their experiences. Among outsiders, the interpreters found protection. sustenance, recognition, intellectual companionship, and employment, yet most of the interpreters ultimately suffered tragic fates. Between Worlds addresses the broadest issues of cross-cultural encounters, imperialism, and capitalism and gives them a human face.