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Sarah Winnemucca, Life Among the Paiutes

Life among the Piutes”, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins

After having read the book, “Life among the Piutes”, for the third time I can only say that the book gets better with each reading. I feel I understand Sarah Winnemucca a little more after each reading. How could anyone label her role as she created if for herself as either an Indian Rights Activist, or an accomodationist, she was so much more. Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins was a true fighter for Indian rights, her whole life centered around the betterment of her people first and always, but she also knew her peoples world was changing and for them to survive they would have to change with it. Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins was fighting for her people in a time when Indians were considered less and treated worse than the cows the government kept on the reservations. They were starved, mistreated, lied to and punished for crimes that they did not commit. I believe she wrote this book in a last attempt to get the recognition of t...

Posted by: Quentina Green

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