Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-04

she had held a council with band of
fifty VINO were captured by General
Howard, and that they were BannOcks.
These Indians were part of band
called "Sheep-eaters." They were
afraid to 60 to their reservations; they
had committed so many depredations
and murders that they expected to be
hanged when captured. The rest Of
this band had made their way to the
Utes and invited them to make depre-
dations upon the frontiersmen. Sarah,
since February last, has been living at
the Yakima reservation, where some
four hundred of her tribe have settled
down. Soon after their arrival there
the Government put school house at
her disposal, and until she left she
taught regularly the rudiments of the
English language to a class of thirty
two girls and thirty boys, all Indians.
She is very well satisfied with the
progress she has made. Sarah appears
to be an enthusiastic Methodist, and
she narrated her experiences of ga
lovely camp meeting" as she called it,
with evident relish. 1t had been at
tended by over eight hundred people,
whites and Indians, and she herself had
interpreted the sermons which we're
preached by the missionaries. Sixty
three Piutes had been converted since
the spring, partially through her minis
trations. Her people had cleared off
about three hundred acres of land upon
the reservation, and intended to settle
down permanently. They had some
nice houses, and some had even sewing
machines and organs. They row in
tended to build a church. The only
matter which gave her occasional
trouble were the teuds which were con-
tinually springing up between her peo-
pie and those Indians who had come to
the reservation before them.
Sarah Winnemucca thinks that she
was born at or near Humboldt Lake.
When eight or nine years of age, while
travelling with her people toward Car
son City, she saw the first white man.
" remember" she says, "my grand
father got two boxes of crackers from
the emigrant, but / was afraid; the
man had nothing but eyes, and all hair.
1 got behind my mother and called him
an owl. My grandfather, while with
Captain. Fremont, had heard about
and when he came back
from the Mexican war he took the
whole tribe with him into the Joaquin
Valley. My brothers Tom and Naches
here went to work for four years ON a
ferry boat. After that we went down
to Saut City and staid there for three
years; from there / went to San Jose.
There l went to the convent school for
about three years. liked it very we'll,
until in 1865 l heard that my people
had taken the war-path against the
whites. Solvent back to Nevada, and |
since that time l have been travelling
around from one place to another,
mostly with the army. Usually the In
lians treat me we'll enough, unless they
ire ON the war-path, and then | have
% be very careful. l never go armed,
because l would not use any pistols,
anyway. But when l 60 scouting I al
Ways take two Indians along with me,
ind they get very good rifles from the
Being asked if she had not
,ften been in danger, Sarah only smiled
ind said she did not know; nothing had
,ver happened to her.-SGn Francisco
JhT0niCte.