Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins is the first known autobiography by an a Native American woman. Her riveting, heartbreaking memoir is both a history of the Piute Indian tribe and an account of the devastation caused to the Piute people after their first contact with white men in the nineteenth century.
Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins is the first known autobiography by an a Native American woman. Her riveting, heartbreaking memoir is both a history of the Piute Indian tribe and an account of the devastation caused to the Piute people after their first contact with white men in the nineteenth century.