Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (AmazonClassics Edition) Audiobook By Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins cover art

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Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (AmazonClassics Edition)

By: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
Narrated by: DeLanna Studi
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The first known autobiography by a Native American woman, Life Among the Paiutes is an eye-opening hybrid of history and memoir by a pioneering activist who witnessed firsthand the impact of the US’s westward expansion.

For Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, straddling “American” and Native customs was a complex and often dispiriting process. With her mastery of English, she was able to work as a scout, messenger, and translator between two cultures. But as government promises went unfulfilled and injustices against her people escalated, so did Hopkins’s advocacy for Native American rights, for reform, and for the preservation of Paiute traditions.

Frequently utilized by scholars, Life Among the Paiutes was hailed by anthropologist Omer Stewart as “one of the first and one of the most enduring ethnohistorical books written by an American Indian.”

Revised edition: Previously published as Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims, this edition of Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Public Domain (P)2022 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Biographies & Memoirs Women

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I very much enjoyed listening to this book. Living in Nevada I had always heard of Sarah Winnemucca but didn’t know much about her.
It was a very interesting book with great narration. Highly recommend.

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Sarah Winnemucca spent much time in Oregon amongst the Burns Paiute Tribe and this diary is a great resource to understanding their experience.

Great local geography + cultural insight

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Sarah Winnemucca is an American hero. The narrator does a fantastic job of expressing Sarah's wonder upon first meeting the prospectors and settlers and then changing tones to exasperation and helplessness as promises are abandoned and forgotten. This is a beautiful look into the life of this tough tribe and the way her people at first tried to acquiesce and live in harmony with newcomers. I'm very thankful for the indigenous narrator who gives Sarah such an emotional and relatable voice.

Unique Perspective from First Contact to Betrayal

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this should be read by everyone. not only eye opening but a horrifying account of atrocities. one of many.

must read

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