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    Sarah Winnemucca: A Princess for the People
    Sarah Winnemucca: A Princess for the People
    Sarah Winnemucca: A Princess for the People
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    Sarah Winnemucca: A Princess for the People

    By John L Smith

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    The Fields of Silver and Gold series brings the past alive. Meet the trailblazers and the pioneers, the first people and the famous explorers, the legends and the everyday heroes that shaped the history, land, and culture of the West. Their powerful stories will fascinate and inspire you.

    Advocate. Leader. Author. Thocmetony (or as she came to be known, Sarah Winnemucca) broke race, cultural and gender barriers in the late 1800s to become a champion of the Northern Paiute. As a writer and speaker, scout and interpreter, teacher and peacemaker, she fought against injustice towards native people. Her experiences took her from the foothills of the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains to San Francisco, California, from the reservations in Oregon and Washington to Washington, D.C., where she is commemorated today by a statue in the U.S. Capitol Building.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKeystone Canyon Press
    Release dateDec 4, 2020
    ISBN9781953055026
    Sarah Winnemucca: A Princess for the People
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    John L Smith

    Native Nevadan John L. Smith is a longtime journalist and the author of more than a dozen books. He has won many state, regional, and national awards for his writing and was inducted into the Nevada Press Association Hall of Fame in 2016, the same year that saw him honored with the James Foley/Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism, the Society of Professional Journalists Ethics Award, and the Ancil Payne Award from the University of Oregon. He freelances for a variety of publications, including The Nevada Independent. The father of a grown daughter, Amelia, he is married to the writer Sally Denton and makes his home in Boulder City, Nevada. Sarah Winnemucca and Snowshoe Thompson are his first in the Fields of Silver and Gold Series.

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      Sarah Winnemucca - John L Smith

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      Sarah Winnemucca

      A Princess for the People

      John L. Smith

      For Amelia, my brave little flower

      Publisher Alrica Goldstein

      Copyeditor Paul Szydelko

      Cover Designer Alissa Gates Booth

      Cartographer David Stroud

      Picture Research Catherine Magee

      Keystone Canyon Press • 2341 Crestone Drive • Reno, NV 89523

      www.keystonecanyon.com

      Copyright © 2020 by John L. Smith

      The publisher would like to thank the Nevada Historical Society, the Nevada State Museum, Nevada State Parks, University of Nevada Archives, and the Library of Congress for their kind permission to take and reproduce photographs.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      A Cataloging-in-Publication record for this title is available from the Library of Congress.

      ISBN 978-1-953055-00-2

      EPUB ISBN 978-1-953055-02-6

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Table of Contents

      Author’s Note

      Timeline

      Map of Northern Nevada/California

      Chapter 1: A Girl Named Shell Flower

      Chapter 2: Hard Lessons and a New Language

      Chapter 3: The Pyramid Lake War

      Chapter 4: Sarah Takes the Stage

      Chapter 5: A Letter from Sarah

      Chapter 6: The Malheur Dream

      Chapter 7: The Bannock War

      Chapter 8: Promises Made, Promises Broken, and a Petition to Congress

      Chapter 9: Life Among the Piute

      Chapter 10: Paying the Price for Speaking Out

      Chapter 11: Teaching Future Generations

      Epilogue: Brave Deeds and a Legacy of Hope

      Appendix: In Her Own Words

      Glossary and Key Characters in This Story

      Selected Bibliography and Further Reading

      Questions for Discussion

      About the Author

      Author’s Note

      Sarah Winnemucca’s life remains as intriguing and controversial today as it was more than 150 years ago. She was celebrated and scorned by the press, politicians, and the public. Through the passage of time she has been depicted both as a brave and selfless leader of her people, and as one whose efforts were co-opted by the dominant white culture at times to the detriment of the tribe.

      The pages that follow do not argue that controversy, but try to celebrate Winnemucca’s undeniably courageous efforts to call out injustice and improve the lives of her people as best she could in rapidly changing times.

      It’s also important to note that the people known currently as the Northern Paiute did not call themselves by that name. They referred to themselves as the people and had their own language and long and rich spiritual and cultural traditions that were challenged and changed against their will.

      Timeline

      1844 Sarah Winnemucca is born near Humboldt River, precise date unknown.

      1844 US Army Captain John C. Frémont travels through Northern Paiute country, eventually befriends Captain Truckee, Sarah’s maternal grandfather.

      1848 Gold is discovered in California at Sutter’s Mill, attracting thousands of miners, speculators, and settlers from the East. They often traveled across Northern Paiute land.

      1851 Genoa (first called Mormon Station) is founded. Considered Nevada’s oldest town.

      1851 Captain Truckee leads of group of Northern Paiute to see the white settlements in California. Sarah reluctantly goes along.

      1859 Silver and gold is discovered near Virginia City.

      1860 Pyramid Lake War. Pony Express mail services crosses Northern Paiute land.

      1861 Civil War begins.

      1864 Sarah speaks at Sutcliffe’s Music Hall in Virginia City.

      1864 On October 31, Nevada becomes a state.

      1865 Mud Lake Massacre; Civil War ends.

      1868 Sarah is hired as an interpreter at Fort McDermit.

      1872 Paiute are relocated to Malheur, Oregon Reservation.

      1878 Bannock War

      1882 Chief Winnemucca dies. Natches becomes chief of the Northern Paiute.

      1883 Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims is published.

      1888 Peabody School closes. Sarah moves to Idaho to live with her younger sister, Elma Winnemucca Smith.

      1891 On October 16, Sarah Winnemucca dies at Henry’s Lake, Idaho.

      2005 On March 9, a statue of Sarah Winnemucca sculpted by

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