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Sarah Winnemucca was Northern Paiute and was born not long before her band had their first contact with people of European descent. That happened in the middle of the 19th century, which means she lived through a lot – this episode covers her early life.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio. |
0:11.6 | Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry. |
0:16.7 | Today we are going to talk about Sarah Winamucka, who was northern Paiute and was born not long before her band had their first contact with people of European descent. |
0:28.9 | That happened in the middle of the 19th century, which means that she lived through a lot. |
0:34.9 | And a lot of what she lived through was violent and horrifying. |
0:39.1 | She spent a lot of her adult life trying to advocate for the Northern Paiute, |
0:44.0 | although her legacy in that regard has some complexities. |
0:48.9 | There's enough that happened and enough complexities that this blossomed into a two-part episode. |
0:55.3 | Sarah Winamaca's name in the Northern Paiute language was Tomitoniga, and that means shell |
1:01.1 | flower, and she published her book under the name Sarah Wenamaca Hopkins, which was her married |
1:06.7 | name at the time. The name Winamaca means giver, and in addition to her use of it as a surname, |
1:14.4 | it was also used by multiple men in her family, including her grandfather, father, and brother. |
1:20.8 | So to try to avoid confusion, we are going to refer to her mostly as Sarah, |
1:29.9 | to her father as Winamucka, |
1:32.6 | and to her grandfather and brother as other names that they were also known by. |
1:35.3 | And those are Truckee for her grandfather |
1:37.2 | and Natchez for her brother. |
1:40.0 | Both of those are probably nicknames |
1:42.3 | that were given to them by white people. |
1:45.0 | Truckee probably came from a northern piute word meaning all right. |
1:49.3 | It was something that they heard him say a lot. |
1:51.8 | And the Natchez came from the northern piute word for boy |
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