Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims, by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (Carson City, NV: University of Nevada Press, 1994; first published in 1883)
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1844-1891) provides a first person account of the injustices suffered by the Paiute Indians, from their first meeting with white men through their removal from their ancestral lands in Nevada to other locations in the western United States. Her haunting narrative is Winnemucca’s “powerful legacy to both white and Paiute cultures.”
I was born somewhere near 1844, but am not sure of the precise time. I was a very small child when the first white people came into our country. They came like a lion, yes, like a roaring lion, and have continued so ever since, and I have never forgotten their first coming. My people were scattered at that time over nearly all the territory now known as Nevada. My grandfather was chief of the entire Piute nation, and was camped near Humboldt Lake, with a small portion of his tribe, when a party traveling eastward from California was seen coming. – from Life Among the Piutes, by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
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