Life Among the Piutes: The First Autobiography of a Native American Woman

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Life Among the Paiutes is considered the "first known autobiography written by a Native American woman." This is both an autobiographic memoir and history of the Paiute people during their first forty years of contact with European Americans. It Anthropologist Omer Stewart described it as "one of the first and one of the most enduring ethnohistorical books written by an American Indian."

Contents:

First Meeting of Piutes and Whites

Domestic and Social Moralities

Wars and Their Causes

Captain Truckee's Death

Reservation of Pyramid and Muddy Lakes

The Malheur Agency

The Bannock War

The Yakima Affair