Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims by Sarah Winnemucca HopkinsMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a really amazing autobiography from the grand-daughter of chief Truckee, medicine chief of the < ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paiute#... Paiute. I especially like the first part of the narrative, as touches on the tribe's first forty years of contact with European Americans during a time when her recollections from early childhood give a dream-like quality to the first interactions and "talking rag" letter her grandfather treated with reverence as a powerful amulet in dealing with these mysterious, unpredictable, dangerous, and powerful creatures. With adulthood, her role as interperter and Paiute representative to the Indian Bureau and then the populace adds many levels of perspective to an all too typical tragedy of broken treaties, unnecessary violence, and concentration camp-like reservations.
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