Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins 
Life Among the Piutes [EPUB ebook] 
The First Autobiography of a Native American Woman: First Meeting of Piutes and Whites, Domestic and Social Moralities of Piutes, Wars and Their Causes, Reservation of Pyramid and Muddy Lakes

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