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"Born in a Paiute community in western Nevada at a time when the Paiutes' homeland and traditional way of life were increasingly threatened, Sarah [Winnemucca] 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. [This book is] 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."--Jacket.

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Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Southern Paiute language. --- Ute language. --- Paiute Indians. --- Ute Indians. --- Nūche Indians --- Uta Indians --- Indians of North America --- Numic Indians --- Pah-Ute Indians --- Piute Indians --- Paiute language --- Numic languages --- Uta language --- Yuta language

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Western Times and Water Wars chronicles more than a hundred years of tumultuous events in the history of California's Owens Valley. From the pioneer conquest of the native inhabitants to the infamous destruction of the valley's agrarian economy by water-hungry Los Angeles, this legendary setting is a microcosm of the development of the American West.

Social movements --- Water rights --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Paiute Indians --- Pah-Ute Indians --- Piute Indians --- Indians of North America --- Numic Indians --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Pioneers --- Rights, Water --- Water --- Riparian rights --- Water trusts --- Movements, Social --- Social history --- Social psychology --- History. --- History --- Law and legislation --- Owens Valley (Calif.) --- Owens River Valley (Calif.) --- Social conditions.

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"Most California histories begin with the arrival of the Spanish missionaries in the late eighteenth century and skip to the Gold Rush of 1849. Noticeably absent from these stories are the perspectives and experiences of the people who lived on the land long before European settlers arrived. Historian William Bauer seeks to correct that oversight through an approach that tells California history strictly through Native perspectives. Using oral histories of Concow, Pomo, and Paiute workers, taken as part of a New Deal federal works project, Bauer reveals how Native peoples have experienced and interpreted the history of the land we now call California. Combining these oral histories with creation myths and other oral traditions, he demonstrates the importance of sacred landscapes and animals and other nonhuman actors to the formation of place and identity. He also examines tribal stories of ancestors who prophesized the coming of white settlers and uses their recollections of the California Indian Wars to counteract popular narratives that downplay Native resistance. The result challenges the "California story" and enriches it with new voices and important points of view."--Provided by publisher.

Indians, Treatment of --- Indians of North America --- Indian mythology --- Paiute Indians --- Pomo Indians --- Konkow Indians --- Indians --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Mythology, Indian --- Mythology --- Pah-Ute Indians --- Piute Indians --- Numic Indians --- Kulanapan Indians --- Concow Indians --- Concow Maidu Indians --- Kojo:mk'awi Indians --- Konkow Maidu Indians --- Northwestern Maidu Indians --- Maidu Indians --- Wars. --- Folklore. --- History. --- Government relations --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Religion and mythology