Welcome back! 

Tonight's story takes us back to the mid-1800s in the landscape of the mountains, deserts and valleys of the Great Basin of the United States.  Sarah Winnemucca was an indigenous woman of the Northern Paiute Nation who fought for the human rights of her people.  She spoke directly to Congress and educated the general public about her tribe and what life was REALLY like on the reservations.  She is also considered the first Native American woman to have published a book, which was her autobiography Life among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims.

This story was already prepared prior to this month but we'll be back to celebrating Black women during Black History Month later this week in an extra episode!

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~~Sources~~

“Sarah Winnemucca Devoted Her Life to Protecting Native Americans in the Face of an Expanding United States.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 27 July 2016, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sarah-winnemucca-devoted-life-protecting-lives-native-americans-face-expanding-united-states-180959930/.

“Sarah Winnemucca, Whose Paiute Indian Name Is Thocmetony Or Shell Flower, Dies.” World History Project, worldhistoryproject.org/1891/10/14/sarah-winnemucca-whose-paiute-indian-name-is-thocmetony-or-shell-flower-dies.

Scandalous Women, by Elizabeth Kerry McMahon, Pelham McMahon, 2015, pp. 170–179.

Unknown, Unknown. “Menu.” Nevada Women's History Project, www.nevadawomen.org/research-center/biographies-alphabetical/sarah-winnemucca/.

Winnemucca, Sarah. My Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1883.