Newspaper Warrior
Subtitle: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780803243682
Subjects: Indians of north america, southwest, new; Indians of north america, government relations; Indians of north america, social conditions; Indians of north america, politics and government; Indians, treatment of
Description: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (Northern Paiute) has long been recognized as an important nineteenth-century American Indian activist and writer. Yet her acclaimed performances and speaking tours across the United States, along with the copious newspaper articles that grew out of those tours, have been largely ignored and forgotten. The Newspaper Warrior collects hundreds of newspaper articles, letters to the editor, advertisements, book reviews, and editorial comments by and about Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins. This anthology gathers together her literary production for newspapers and magazines from her 1864 performances in San Francisco to her untimely death in 1891, focusing on the years 1879 to 1887, when Winnemucca Hopkins gave hundreds of lectures in the eastern and western United States; published her book, Life among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (1883); and established a bilingual school for Native American children.