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Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims

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MPN: 43241-10112 ItemWidth: 8 Publisher: CreateSpace width: 8 ItemLength: 216 Book Title: Life Among the Piutes : Their Wrongs and Claims Item Height: 0.3 in PartNumber: 43241 10112 PackageWidth: 216 PackageWeight: 322 ItemHeight: 279 PackageLength: 278 Format: Trade Paperback PackageHeight: 18 Manufacturer: create space independent publishing platform Language: English Item Weight: 13.2 Oz Item Length: 11 in Model: 43241 10112 height: 279 Author: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins Topic: Native American Brand: CREATESPACE Publication Year: 2017 Number of Pages: 120 Pages Item Width: 8.5 in ISBN: 9781974078509 Genre: History

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Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims. Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims Product Details 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 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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