| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Sarah Winnemucca. By Sally Zanjani. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. xiv, 366 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8032-4917-9.)

Born in 1844 in what is now western Nevada, Sarah Winnemucca's world view was forever shaped by her grandfather and father, both Paiute band chiefs, who sought to live in harmony with encroaching whites. Before her somewhat mysterious death in 1891 she would at various times undertake death-defying missions on horseback, enchant audiences from San Francisco to Boston on the lecture stage, and with the help of her benefactor, Elizabeth Peabody, publish the now classic Life among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (1883). One of the strongest features of this biography is that it situates Winnemucca's life against the backdrop of such historical developments as the Bannock war (1878), the ever-growing plight of the Great Basin Paiutes struggling to survive in a fragile ecological region being overrun by whites, the cruelty of the reservation system, and the ongoing conflict between the departments of War and Interior for control of Indian affairs. . . .

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