Life Among the Piutes E-Book

Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins

• Herausgeber: Arcadia Press
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (c. 1844 – 1891) was a Northern Paiute author, activist and educator.Winnemucca published Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (1883), a book that is both a memoir and history of her people during their first 40 years of contact with European Americans.It is considered the "first known autobiography written by a Native American woman."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.Following the publication of the book, Winnemucca toured the Eastern United States, giving lectures about her people in New England, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. She returned to the West, founding a private school for Native American children in Lovelock, Nevada.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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EDITOR’S PREFACE.

LIFE AMONG THE PIUTES

CHAPTER I. - FIRST MEETING OF PIUTES AND WHITES.

CHAPTER II. - DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL MORALITIES.

CHAPTER III. - WARS AND THEIR CAUSES.

CHAPTER IV. - CAPTAIN TRUCKEE’S DEATH.

CHAPTER V. - RESERVATION OF PYRAMID AND MUDDY LAKES.

CHAPTER VI. - THE MALHEUR AGENCY.

CHAPTER VII. - THE BANNOCK WAR.

CHAPTER VIII. - THE YAKIMA AFFAIR.

NOTE.

APPENDIX.

FOOTNOTES

Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins

LIFE AMONG THE PIUTES

Their Wrongs and Claims

EDITED BYMRS. HORACE MANN

Copyright © Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins

Life Among the Piutes

(1883)

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EDITOR’S PREFACE.

MY editing has consisted in copying the original manuscript in correct orthography and punctuation, with occasional emendations by the author, of a book which is an heroic act on the part of the writer. Mrs. Hopkins came to the East from the Pacific coast with the courageous purpose of telling in detail to the mass of our people, “extenuating nothing and setting down naught in malice,” the story of her people’s trials. Finding that in extemporaneous speech she could only speak at one time of a few points, she determined to write out the most important part of what she wished to say. In fighting with her literary deficiencies she loses some of the fervid eloquence which her extraordinary colloquial command of the English language enables her to utter, but I am confident that no one would desire that her own original words should be altered. It is the first outbreak of the American Indian in human literature, and has a single aim – totellthetruth as it lies in the heart and mind of a true patriot, and one whose knowledge of the two races gives her an opportunity of comparing them justly. At this moment, when the United States seem waking up to their duty to the original possessors of our immense territory, it is of the first importance to hear what only an Indian and an Indian woman can tell. To tell it was her own deep impulse, and the dying charge given her by her father, the truly parental chief of his beloved tribe.

M. M.

LIFE AMONG THE PIUTES