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Sto caricando le informazioni... Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs And Claims (originale 1883; edizione 1994)di Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (Autore), Catherine S. Fowler (Prefazione)
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This autobiographical work was written by one of the country's most well-known Native American women, Sarah Winnemucca. She was a Paiute princess and a major figure in the history of Nevada; her tribe still resides primarily in the state. Life Among the Piutes deals with Winnemucca's life and the plight of the Paiute Indians. Life Among the Piutes is Winnemucca's powerful legacy to both white and Paiute cultures. Following the oral tradition of Native American people, she reaches out to readers with a deeply personal appeal for understanding. She also records historical events from a unique perspective. She managed to record the Native American viewpoint of whites settling the West, told in a language that was not her own and by a woman during the time when even white women were not allowed to vote. Sarah Winnemucca dedicated her life to improving the living and social conditions for her people. She gave more than 400 speeches across the United States and Europe to gain support for the Paiutes. She died of tuberculosis in 1891. Life Among the Piutes was originally published in 1883. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)978.033History and Geography North America Western U.S. 1900-Classificazione LCVotoMedia: (3.5)
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Hopkins was apparently a well-known speaker, who gave more than four hundred speeches in support of Piute rights, in both the United States and Europe. Her activism is credited with drawing enough public attention to the injustices perpetrated against the Paiute people, that when they began escaping from Yakima in order to return to their homelands in Nevada, they were largely left alone. In the last years of her life, Hopkins also returned to Nevada, where she founded a number of schools for Native Americans.
Required reading in one of my classes in college, I had never heard of this work - or its author - before, and I was struck by the extraordinary nature of Hopkins' life journey. Born before white settlers had reached Nevada, Hopkins (whose Paiute name was "Thocmentony," meaning "Shell Flower") wasn't just a woman of two worlds in a cultural sense - she literally died in a different world than the one into which she was born.
I understand that Hopkins is considered controversial by some, and has been criticized both for her assimilationist ideas and for her assistance to the U.S. Army during the Bannock War. For my part, when I read these narratives of people caught up in times of extraordinary and unprecedented change, I am always amazed at what they ARE able to accomplish, and I frequently find myself wondering what I would have made of similar circumstances. In the end, I believe that Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins did the best with what she had, and however much we may disagree with some of her decisions, it cannot be denied that she never forgot her people, or ceased to fight for them. For that, and for her unique role in American history, she deserves to be remembered. (