In recognition of the Northern Paiutes on Indigenous Peoples Day, October 9, 2023
Sarah Winnemucca "memorial" sign placed on US Highway 95 as it crosses the Old I.O.N. Road near Rome, Oregon.
Sarah Winnemucca(1844-1891) is … a controversial figure, and herein lies some of her historical interest. … Similarly, her own people, the Northern Paiute, are of mixed opinions about her. … Neither written history nor oral tradition provides fully satisfactory answers to all aspects of Sarah Winnemucca's life. She was an extraordinary person. She was also a very complex person living in complex times and making complex decisions. She was of two worlds, and perhaps sadly, at home in neither.
— Catherine S. Fowler, from "Foreword" to Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims by Sarah Winnemucca. U Nevada Press, 1994.
— Catherine S. Fowler, from "Foreword" to Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims by Sarah Winnemucca. U Nevada Press, 1994.
Recommended:
— Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins originally published 1883.
— “ ‘An Educated Paiute woman,’ 1870” in Oregon Indians: voices from two centuries, edited by Stephen Dow Beckham. OSU Press, 2006. This includes a brief overview by Beckham and a letter written by Sarah Winnemucca from Camp McDermitt, Nevada, in 1870.
— All photos (click to enlarge) from road trip several years ago after a journey to Map Rock on the Snake River on a 102-degree day. (Yep, jumped in for a cooling dip.)
— Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins originally published 1883.
— “ ‘An Educated Paiute woman,’ 1870” in Oregon Indians: voices from two centuries, edited by Stephen Dow Beckham. OSU Press, 2006. This includes a brief overview by Beckham and a letter written by Sarah Winnemucca from Camp McDermitt, Nevada, in 1870.
— All photos (click to enlarge) from road trip several years ago after a journey to Map Rock on the Snake River on a 102-degree day. (Yep, jumped in for a cooling dip.)
Note
Sacajawea is the most famous Native American in Oregon history. So it is a thought provoking confluence, that her son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (1805-1866), who traveled with her on Lewis & Clark expedition, is buried a very few desert miles northeast of the Sarah Winnemucca memorial sign, near remote Danner, Oregon.
Sacajawea is the most famous Native American in Oregon history. So it is a thought provoking confluence, that her son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (1805-1866), who traveled with her on Lewis & Clark expedition, is buried a very few desert miles northeast of the Sarah Winnemucca memorial sign, near remote Danner, Oregon.
