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Written on: October 14th, 2009 by: in Blog Posts
October 14 marks the death in 1891 of Thocmetony/Sarah Winnemucca, the first Native American woman to publish under copyright in the United States. Her autobiographical work, Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims, was published in 1883.
You can read more about Sarah Winnemucca and the Paiute people at the Library of Congress’ Today in History website