Life among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims
Author: first_name: Sarah Winnemucca
last_name: Hopkins
Language: English
Year: 1883

Sarah Winnemucca--granddaughter of Captain Truckee, and often referred to as a "princess"--wrote this argumentative memoir about the first forty years of her people's interactions with American emigrants, settlers, military men, and Bureau of Indian Affairs agents. Sarah describes why she thinks the military should replace the BIA agents in dealing with the Native American tribes. Her harrowing stories of what she was asked to do--required to do to save the lives of her people, the Piutes (i.e.,