Life Among the Piutes: The First Autobiography of a Native American Woman: First Meeting of Piutes and Whites, Domestic and Social Moralities of Piutes, Wars and Their Causes, Reservation of Pyramid and Muddy Lakes

by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins

Overview

Life Among the Paiutes is considered the "first known autobiography written by a Native American woman." This is both an autobiographic memoir and history of the Paiute people during their first forty years of contact with European Americans. It Anthropologist Omer Stewart described it as "one of the first and one of the most enduring ethnohistorical books written by an American Indian." Contents: First Meeting of Piutes and Whites Domestic and Social Moralities Wars and Their Causes Captain Truckee's Death Reservation of Pyramid and Muddy Lakes The Malheur Agency The Bannock War The Yakima Affair

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788026881513
Publisher:	Madison & Adams Press
Publication date:	01/01/2018
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	171
Sales rank:	933,782
File size:	633 KB