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Spring, 2002
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Book Review

Sarah Winnemucca. By Sally Zanjani. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. xi + 366 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95, £19.95.)

     Our conversations about American Indian women often prove predictably brief and convoluted, inevitably begin with Pocahontas, and rarely proceed past Sacagawea. But as Sally Zanjani argues in this biography, the life of nineteenth-century Paiute activist Sarah Winnemucca compels attention and interest for reasons that exceed the Pocahontas and Sacagawea sagas in scope and importance. Winnemucca's relatively brief but frenetic career as an activist was notable both for the light it shed on Indian policy and for the notoriety and controversy that it brought to Winnemucca. . . .

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