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	Sarah Winnemucca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Despite this, Sarah has received much positive attention recently for her activism, and in 2005 a statue of her was added to the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol.
		Although Sarah was initially terrified of white people, her grandfather took her with him on a trip to the Sacramento area (a trip her father refused to make), and later placed her in the household of William Ormsby of Carson City, Nevada to be educated.
		Sarah went there with them to serve as a translator, although as she had a job she was not required to live on a reservation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sarah_Winnemucca (1267 words)

	Sarah Winnemucca
		Born "somewhere near 1844" at the Humboldt Sink in western Nevada, Sarah Winnemucca was the daughter of Chief Winnemucca (Po-i-to).
		Although Sarah was terrified of white people, her grandfather took her with him on a trip to the Sacramento area (a trip her father refused to go on), and later placed her in the household of William Ormsby of Carson City, Nevada to be educated.
		Sarah also worked as a translator, messenger and scout for the US Army during the Bannock War of 1878 (in which Paiutes fought alongside the Bannocks) as well as several smaller conflicts, and she was very well regarded by the officers she worked for.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/s/sa/sarah_winnemucca.html (818 words)

	Winnemucca, Sarah Criticism and Essays
		A member of the Paiute tribe, Winnemucca rose to a level of public notoriety while conducting a series of American lecture tours in which she criticized unfair federal acquisition of native lands and the harsh treatment of Indians forced to live on reservations.
		In the ensuing years, Winnemucca was frequently engaged as a military interpreter and liaison to the Paiute, a capacity she served when hostilities between U. armed forces and the Paiute, Bannock, and Shoshoni people erupted in the Bannock War of 1878.
		Winnemucca used some of the profits from her lectures and the sale of her book to establish a school for Paiute children in 1884.
	www.enotes.com /nineteenth-century-criticism/winnemucca-sarah (819 words)

	Outlaw Women - Sarah Winnemucca
		Winnemucca for a time was an interpreter for the reservation agent, but the appointment of a new and unsympathetic agent in 1876 ended her service as well as a period of relative quiet on the reservation.
		Sarah was not deterred, traveling to Washington, D. C., to gain an audience with President Garfield Hayes, returning home with written orders for the release of her tribe from the reservation so they could return home.
		Sarah, who was well educated, devoted her life to lecturing and writing books in her efforts to liberate her people from the "dog face" enemy.
	www.outlawwomen.com /SarahWinnemucca.htm (1013 words)

	Woman Spirit - Tocmetone - Paiute
		Sarah was born into a family of great leaders with both her father and her grandfather having been Chiefs of this Nevada Nation.
		Sarah had kicked up such a storm across the country that her people were more or less left alone and were not forcibly removed again.
		Sarah Winnemucca was called "The Princess" by whites; "Mother" by the Paiutes, and "The most famous Indian woman on the Pacific Coast" by historians.
	www.powersource.com /gallery/womansp/paiute.html (771 words)

	Sarah Winnemucca - Carson City Visitors Bureau
		Born in about 1844 near the Humboldt Sink, Sarah Winnemucca was the granddaughter of Captain Truckee, a Paiute leader who served as a scout for John C. Fremont (and namesake of the Truckee River).
		Sarah Winnemucca was unique among 19th century Native Americans in that she had attended school.
		After a visit, Winnemucca was so disturbed by the conditions that she embarked on a series of lectures to draw attention to her people’s plight.
	www.carson-city.org /history/people/sarah_winnemucca.php (340 words)

	Canku Ota - May 18, 2002 - Winnemucca Descendant to Attend Statue Ceremony
		When Sarah Winnemucca's statue is raised in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol her grand-niece plans to be there in her fringed buckskin dress.
		Winnemucca, a 19th-century northern Nevada Paiute woman who worked for peace between American Indians and the newly arrived settlers welcomed by her grandfather, Chief Truckee, will be memorialized by decree of the Nevada Legislature in 2001 with the second statue from Nevada.
		Sarah Winnemucca's birth coincided with the beginning of an era of dramatic historical changes for her people, changes in which she would play an important and often thankless role.
	www.turtletrack.org /Issues02/Co05182002/CO_05182002_Winnemucca.htm (871 words)

	Sarah Winnemucca — Infoplease.com
		Sarah Winnemucca, whose Indian name was Thocmetony, or “Shell Flower,” lived during a period of dramatic change for her people and played an active role in Indian affairs during the 19th century.
		Later Sarah learned English when she and her sister stayed with a white family in Mormon Station (now Genoa), Nev., and she also briefly attended a convent school in San Jose, Calif. By the time she was 14, Sarah could speak English and Spanish as well as several Indian dialects.
		From 1866 to 1875, Sarah Winnemucca served as an interpreter for the military at Fort McDermitt in Nevada and at Camp Harney in Oregon.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0900722.html (674 words)

	Sierra Sun - Life
		Sarah, who had been hired and paid $65 per month as an interpreter for the U.S. government, began writing letters describing her people’s decimation to the Indian Commissioner and other politicians in Washington, D.C. They were widely circulated and drew much sympathy from the general public; one letter was published in a Harper’s Weekly article.
		Sarah already had to contend with the stresses of living in two worlds, one white and one red, but now her broken marriage forced her to defend her honor in a frontier society.
		Sarah’s lecture was unlike anything ever before heard in the civilized world — eloquent, pathetic, tragic at times; at others her quaint anecdotes, sarcasm’s and wonderful mimicry surprised the audience again and again into bursts of laughter and rounds of applause.
	www.sierrasun.com /article/20060815/LIFE/60814004 (1463 words)

	History's Women An Online Magazine
		Sarah Winnemucca, Native American of the Paiutes Tribe, is often remembered as a champion of the rights of indigenous peoples.
		Sarah Winnemucca was born in 1842 the daughter of Chief Winnemucca, leader the Paiutes, an Indian tribe native to Nevada and California.
		Sarah, having a good knowledge of English, used the language skills that she learned in convent school to work as an interpreter in an Army camp, but later joined her tribe, which was removed to the Malheur reservation in Oregon in 1872.
	www.historyswomen.com /historyinthemaking/SarahWinnemucca.html (448 words)

	Oregon History ProjectOHP Oregon Biographies Sarah Winnemucca
		Sarah Winnemucca was an accomplished and controversial advocate of Native American rights in the post-Civil War period.
		Sarah first became acquainted with the settlers and learned English when her grandfather placed her as a servant in a white household.
		Although her efforts to change policy initially failed, Sarah is remembered for overcoming the stereotypes of her gender and race to raise public awareness of the harsh conditions Native Americans endured in the late 1800s.
	www.ohs.org /education/oregonhistory/Oregon-Biographies-Sarah-Winnemucca.cfm (320 words)

	Sarah Winnemucca
		Sarah Winnemucca (1841-October 14, 1891) was the first Native American woman known to secure a copyright and to publish in the English language.
		Born "somewhere near 1844" in the Humboldt River and Pyramid Lake area of western Nevada, Sarah Winnemucca was the daughter of Chief Winnemucca (Po-i-to) of the Northern Paiute people.
		Sarah Winnemucca began to lecture on the plight of her people across California and Nevada.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/s/sa/sarah_winnemucca.shtml (726 words)

	Winnemucca History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sarah Winnemucca, (Thocmetony or Shell Flower in Paiute), was born in 1844 near the Humboldt River of Nevada.
		Winnemucca was the hub of early emigrant trails and remains today as the base for people interested in exploring the area's history.
		Winnemucca is home to the largest potato farm in the United States and the largest potato dehydration facility in the world.
	www.desertlinc.com /_Winnemucca_History.html (740 words)

	Sarah Winnemucca
		Born "somewhere near 1844" in the Humbolt River[?] and Pyramid Lakes[?] area of western Nevada, Sarah Winnemucca was the daughter of Chief Winnemucca[?] (Po-i-to) of the Northern Paiute people.
		As translator Sarah Winnemucca was often in the position of conveying to her tribe the words of military men and Indian Agents.
		This role put her in a difficult position both with her tribe and her employers: with her tribe for conveying what frequently proved to be lies and false promises, and with the employers for being a thorn in their side by drawing their attention to the plight of her people.
	www.fastload.org /sa/Sarah_Winnemucca.html (747 words)

	Sarah Winnemucca: Paiute Activist & Spokesperson
		Sarah Winnemucca (1844–1891) was one of the most influential and charismatic Native American women in American history.
		Sarah’s ideas on education were revolutionary compared to U.S. Indian policy at that time, which aimed to eradicate Indian culture by converting the young to Christianity and assimilating them by enforced attendance in distant boarding schools.
		Sarah went to live with her sister Elma at Henry’s Lake, Idaho, where she died under mysterious circumstances in 1891 at the age of 47.
	www.nativepeoples.com /article/articles/202/1/Sarah-Winnemucca%3A-Paiute-Activist-%26-Spokesperson (1259 words)

	Early Native Americans
		Winnemucca, whose name is mentioned with the Battles of the Truckee and with the land around Pyramid Lake, had traits of leadership and made many efforts (often overruled by younger leaders) to prevent open conflict with the whites.
		Sarah's life is an interesting one and her book, (presumably the first in English by an Indian woman) "Life Among the Paiutes," gives some of the details of information.
		Natchez was the brother of Sarah Winnemucca and like his sister he worked for a better life for his people.
	www.nevada-history.org /indians.html (5221 words)

	Sarah Winnemucca
		Her grandfather, the elder Chief Winnemucca, “The Giver,” was known as Captain Truckee to the Whites; he had guided Captain John C. Frémont across the mountains into California in 1845-1856.
		The origin of the name Winnemucca is uncertain; most accounts refer to one-e-mucca (or winnamuck) to an incident during the visit of Frémont, when the chief was observed wearing only one moccasin (muck, “moccasin”), having taken the mate off to relieve his foot.
		Sarah rejected the violence and offered her services to the Army as an interpreter and peacemaker; she undertook a dangerous mission into the heart of the Bannock country and successfully persuaded her father and his band to return to a neutral position.
	nativeamericanrhymes.com /women/sarah_winnemucca.htm (761 words)

	Winnemucca statue erected in U.S. Capitol : ICT [2005/03/22]
		WASHINGTON - Sarah Winnemucca, a Northern Paiute woman who dedicated her life to improving living conditions for American Indians in the West, was honored by the state of Nevada recently when a 6-foot bronze statue bearing her likeness was erected in the U.S. Capitol.
		Sarah's courage and brave deeds will inspire future generations who will now have the chance to learn about her remarkable life as a result of this sculpture being added to our national collection.
		Winnemucca was also an educator who opened a school for Indian children in Lovelock, Nev., and she delivered more than 400 speeches - mostly on the East Coast - advocating for equal rights and fair treatment for all American Indians.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096410603 (526 words)

	Sarah Winnemucca: Raw Deal
		Sarah Winnemucca was the only female chief to ever govern the Paiute, a loose confederation of tribes that roamed the Great Basin in what is now western Nevada.
		Unfortunately, whites in the years of Sarah's adulthood were not interested in communicating - unless it was to order the Paiute off their ancestral lands.
		Sarah fought back by lecturing on both the East and West coasts, drawing considerable public sympathy for the plight of her people.
	www.blastbooks.com /RAWDEAL/Winnemucca/fr2winn.htm (219 words)

	Heath Anthology of American LiteratureSarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony) - Author Page
		Winnemucca's remarkable story is complex in both content and form, combining elements of history, autobiography, myth, sentimental appeal, humor, adventure, political tract, and oratory.
		Winnemucca reserves some of her most intense attacks of the latter, who not only profited from government supplies meant for the Indians but also regularly permitted their charges to freeze and starve to death.
		Winnemucca amply deserves the renewed recognition she is beginning to receive, and we can place her securely in Native American literary and activist traditions begun by William Apess and continued in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Zitkala-Sa, Alice Callahan, and Mourning Dove.
	college.hmco.com /english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/late_nineteenth/winnemuccathocmetony_sa.html (864 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: Winnemucca, Sarah Hopkins
		Sarah Winnemucca's Life among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims is the autobiography of a member of the Northern Piute tribe who inhabited parts of what is now Nevada, in the Humboldt Lake region.
		Winnemucca was taught to befriend and establish peace between her culture and the "whites" as a way to live among them and attain friendly relations.
		Winnemucca clearly described situations in which she and her people were taken advantage of or abused in some way because of their race.
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/winnemucca_sarah_hopkins.html (2014 words)

	Sarah Winnemucca. Raintree/Rivilo American Indian Stories Series. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sarah Winnemucca was a full-blood Paiute Indian born in 1844 in Nevada.
		Sarah's grandfather, Captain Truckee, befriended the explorer John C. Fremont and went with him to California.
		Although Sarah did not receive a great deal of formal schooling, she learned to speak English, Spanish, and two Indian languages.
	www.eric.ed.gov /sitemap/html_0900000b801298de.html (170 words)

	Today's Heroes: Sarah Winnemucca (Women in World History Curriculum)
		Sarah Winnemucca was a member of the nomadic Pauite tribe who inhabited the deserts of northern Nevada.
		Sarah’s grandfather was chief of the entire Paiute nation; her father became chief at his death.
		Sarah’s fears were lessened when, at an older age, a white woman helped cure Sarah’s severe case of poison oak.
	www.womeninworldhistory.com /contemporary-09.html (673 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Nevada unveils statue of Sarah Winnemucca at U.S. Capitol
		Winnemucca, who wrote her own autobiography, fought for the rights of her people half a century before McCarran fought a long fight to take land from her tribe.
		Winnemucca opened a bilingual school in Lovelock and lectured for peace and equal rights across the country.
		Another irony of Wednesday's dedication was that Winnemucca, with her right hand extended holding a shell flower and the skirt of her native dress swaying, now will stand permanently where she begged for, but was denied, help for her Pyramid Lake tribe.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/nevada/2005/mar/09/030910085.html (481 words)

	reviewjournal.com -- News: Winnemucca sculptor selected
		Benjamin Victor's sculpture of Sarah Winnemucca, second from left, stands beside those of other finalists on a table in the Governor's Mansion on Thursday in Carson City.
		Victor's depiction of Sarah Winnemucca was picked to represent Nevada in the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall.
		Winnemucca, who was born in 1844 and died in 1891 of tuberculosis, was the daughter and granddaughter of Paiute chiefs.
	reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/2004/Feb-20-Fri-2004/news/23260793.html (455 words)

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