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This is part two of our episode on Sarah Winamucka.

Last time, we talked about her early life

and her northern Paiute band's first encounters with

white people. Where we had left off, a lot of her people had been moved to Mallory Reservation,

and their situation there got a lot worse after Major W.V. Reinhart became Indian agent.

There is a gap of a year or so in her account at this point, and we're starting where her account picks up again. In 1877 or 1878,

while Sarah Winamucka was living and working at a ranch owned by people named either Kuli or Kourley,

several northern piutes traveled to see her to ask for help.

Conditions had continued to deteriorate at Maler Reservation, and that was where they were living.

People were starving, and they did not have enough basic supplies, including clothing.

They thought that Sarah might be able to go with them to Camp Harney to ask for help,

or maybe even go to Washington, D.C., to advocate on their behalf.

But Sarah really did not have any money at that point to take a trip all the way to Washington.

Since she had already been expelled from that same reservation for reporting Reinhardt to Camp

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