Voices Of American Indian Assimilation And Resistance

Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, And Victoria Howard

BY SIBHAN SENIER

Brief Description:
Between 1879 and 1934, the United States government made a concerted effort to dissolve tribes by dividing communally-held lands and forcing American Indians to adopt Euro-American practices. This book focuses on three remarkable women: white writer and activist and Quaker by marriage, Helen Hunt Jackson, , and political activist Sarah Winnemucca, whose Life Among the Piutes is believed to be the first Native American woman's autobiography; and Victoria Howard, the Clackamas Chinook storyteller who worked with Melville Jacobs in 1929 to transcribe hundreds of narratives, ethnographies, and songs.

Red River 2001 256 PP. Paper

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