Sarah Winnemucca
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Sarah Winnemucca
（American Indian lives）
University of Nebraska Press, c2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-356) and index
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内容説明
This is the triumphant and moving story of Sarah Winnemucca (1844-91), one of the most influential and charismatic Native American women in American history. Born in a Paiute community in western Nevada at a time when the Paiutes' homeland and traditional way of life were increasingly threatened, Sarah dedicated much of her life to working for her people. She played an instrumental and controversial role as interpreter and messenger for the U.S. Army during the Bannock War of 1878 and traveled to Washington in 1880 to obtain the release of her people from confinement on the Yakama reservation. She toured the East Coast in the 1880s, tirelessly giving speeches about the plight of her people and heavily criticizing the reservation system. In 1883 she produced her autobiography - the first written by a Native American woman. Using private contributions, she returned to Nevada and founded a Native school whose educational practices and standards were far ahead of its time.
Sally Zanjani's extensively researched and sensitive portrait of this remarkable woman is complex and compelling, composed not only of public challenges and accomplishments but also of private struggles, joys, and ambitions. Unforgettable glimpses of her personality and private life leap from these pages: her notorious sharp tongue and wit, her love of performance, her place in a legendary family of Paiute leaders, her long string of failed relationships, and, at the end, possible poisoning by a romantic rival. Sally Zanjani is on the faculty of the political science department at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of "A Mine of Her Own: Women Prospectors in the American West, 1850-1950" (Nebraska 1997) and other works.
目次
Contents: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue 1. The World of the Paiutes: "Many years ago, when my people were happier than they are now" 2. The San Joaquin: "Rag friend" 3. Genoa: "Our dear good friend, Major Ormsby" 4. The Pine Nut Mountains: "I felt the world growing cold" 5. Winnemucca Lake: "It is a fearful thing to tell, but it must be told" 6. Camp McDermit: "Can you wonder that I like to have my people taken care of by the army" 7. Winnemucca: "I would willingly throw off the garments of civilization and mount my pony" 8. Malheur Reservation: "I cannot tell or express how happy we were" 9. The Bannock War Begins: "I, only an Indian woman, went and saved my father and his people" 10. The Bannock War: "I had a vision, and I was screaming in my sleep" 11. Yakama Reservation: "I am crying out to you for justice" 12. Washington dc: "This which I hold in my hand is our only hope" 13. Fort Vancouver: "For shame! For shame! You dare to cry out liberty when you hold us in places against our will" 14. Boston: "I pray of you, I implore of you, I beseech of you, hear our pitiful cry to you, sweep away the agency system" 15. Lovelock: "Education has done it all" 16. Henry's Lake: "Let my name die out and be forgotten" Epilogue: Sarah Today Notes Bibliography Index
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