SOURCE: "Story, Take Me Home; Instances of Resonance in Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins' Life Among the Piutes," in Entering the 90s: The North American Experience, edited by Thomas E. Schirer, Lake Superior State University Press, 1991, pp. 184-94.

In the following essay, Strange considers Winnemucca's Life among the Piutes as a work filled with personal resonances.

Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims was published in Boston in 1883, "edited by Mrs. Horace Mann," as its title page announced, and "printed for the author," Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (p. 1). Editor and author had met while Sarah was working hard in the east as a controversial and increasingly popular lecturer who staged herself as Princess Sarah in fringed buckskins and beads with a golden crown on her head and at her waist a velvet wampum bag with a cupid worked on it. She had to dress up in order to draw the...