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Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins:Life among the Piutes
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Abstract
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1844–1891) was a Northern Paiute woman, the daughter of a chief, and a tireless advocate for her people, who faced pressure from white settlers and corrupt Indian agents who violently dispossessed them of their homelands in what is now Nevada.
Book contents
- Chapter 1: “Let us have liberty, law, and justice”: Reconstruction, Post–Reconstruction, and the Jim Crow South
- Reconstruction Amendments
- Joseph R. Johnson: Letter from a Northern Teacher to the Freedmen’s Bureau Commissioner
- Jourdon Anderson: Letter “To My Old Master”
- Sharecropper Contract
- Black Code of Mississippi
- Thaddeus Stevens: “Reconstruction” Speech
- “Information Wanted” Advertisements
- Thomas Nast: “Worse than Slavery”
- “The First South Carolina Legislature during Radical Reconstruction”
- Frederick Douglass: “On Remembering the Civil War” Speech
- Henry Grady: “New South” Speech
- Ida B. Wells: Southern Horrors
- Booker T. Washington: Atlanta Exposition Address
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Jim Crow Laws
- W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
- Chapter 2: “Here in the shop the machines roar so wildly”: Industrialization, Immigration, and Labor in the City
- National Quarantine Act
- James Albert Wales: “Where Both Platforms Agree”
- Thomas Edison: Patent No. 223,898 for the Light Bulb
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Bernhard Gillam: “The Protectors of Our Industries”
- Haymarket Affair Announcement
- Lucy Parsons: “I Am an Anarchist” Speech
- T. Thomas Fortune: “The Present Relations of Labor and Capital”
- Interstate Commerce Act
- Leonora Barry: Report for the Knights of Labor
- Nellie Bly: Ten Days in a Mad-House
- Andrew Carnegie: “Wealth”
- Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- Bettie Gay: “The Influence of Women in the Alliance”
- Jane Addams: “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements”
- Frances Willard: Address before the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
- Samuel Gompers: Editorial on the Pullman Strike
- “The Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles”
- Eugene V. Debs: “Liberty” Speech
- “What God Freely Gives to Man, Monopoly Appropriates”
- “The ‘Dayton’ 1896”
- William Jennings Bryan: “Cross of Gold” Speech
- Morris Rosenfeld: “In the Factory”
- Thorstein Veblen: “Conspicuous Consumption”
- Horace Taylor: “What a Funny Little Government”
- Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie
- “What the Bottle Does: One Year’s Work”
- Eugene V. Debs: “How I Became a Socialist”
- John Mitchell: Organized Labor
- Emma Goldman: “A New Declaration of Independence”
- Anzia Yezierska: Bread Givers
- Chapter 3: “To sign away my country”: Westward Expansion and Imperialism
- Homestead Act
- John Gast: American Progress
- Chief Joseph: “An Indian’s View of Indian Affairs”
- John Nicholas Choate: “Before and After”
- Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins: Life among the Piutes
- “Wounded Knee Massacre”
- Richard H. Pratt: “Kill the Indian, and Save the Man” Speech
- Clara Barton: The Red Cross in Peace and War
- Victor Gillam: “Remember the Maine! And Don’t Forget the Starving Cubans!”
- Louis Dalrymple: “School Begins”
- Platform of the Anti-Imperialist League
- Emil Flohri: “And, After All, the Philippines Are Only the Stepping-Stone to China”
- Charles Eastman: From the Deep Woods of Civilization
- Zitkala-Ša: “The Cutting of My Long Hair”
- Chapter 4: “The strong arm of the government”: The Progressive Era
- Theodore Roosevelt: Statements Pertaining to Conservation
- Florence Kelley: “The Child Breadwinner and the Dependent Parent”
- Upton Sinclair: The Jungle
- Jack London: “The Story of an Eyewitness”
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- Theodore Roosevelt: Special Message to Congress on Worker’s Compensation
- Lewis Wickes Hine: “One of the Spinners in Whitnel Cotton Mfg. Co., North Carolina”
- Lewis Wickes Hine: “Sadie Pfeifer, a Cotton Mill Spinner, Lancaster, South Carolina”
- Clara Lemlich: “Life in the Shop”
- Ida B. Wells: “Lynching: Our National Crime”
- Jane Addams: “Why Women Should Vote”
- Shirtwaist Advertisement
- “Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire”
- Progressive Party Platform
- Jane Addams: “Who Is to Blame for Child Labor?”
- World War I Propaganda Poster for Victory Gardens
- Margaret Sanger: “Birth Control and Racial Betterment”
- W. E. B. Du Bois: “Jesus Christ in Texas”