Life Among the Piutes

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 WhitesDomestic and Social MoralitiesWars and Their CausesCaptain Truckee's DeathReservation of Pyramid and Muddy LakesThe Malheur AgencyThe Bannock WarThe Yakima Affair