Sarah Winnemucca's Practical Solution of the Indian Problem: A Letter to Dr. Lyman Abbot of the "Christian Union" — John Shaqi
Sarah Winnemucca's Practical Solution of the Indian Problem: A Letter to Dr. Lyman Abbot of the "Christian Union"Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer
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Sarah Winnemucca's Practical Solution of the Indian Problem: A Letter to Dr. Lyman Abbot of the "Christian Union"
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer
Indians of North America -- Education; Paiute Indians -- Education; Winnemucca, Sarah, 1844?-1891
The artless autobiography of the first chapters of Sarah’s book
gives the key to her career as reconciling mediator for the mutual
understanding of the two races. She was educated for it by her
grandfather. That she has actually become this, is shown by an article
from the “Daily Alta California,” of July 24, which I have just
received; and I beg that you will insert every word of it here:--
“We have referred already to the school for Indian children
established in Nevada by the Piute woman, Princess Sarah Winnemucca.
Her efforts have seemed to us to deserve encouragement. Travellers
through Nevada who have seen the squalid crowds of Indian children
at the stations taking eagerly scraps of food offered them at the
car windows, may think that the regeneration of those people is
impossible. To change this opinion it is only necessary to consider
the case of Sarah Winnemucca, who, when her childhood was long past,
first had opportunities for education, and improved them so well that
her attainments command the respect of all white people who know
her. What education has done for her it may do for a majority of the
children of that tribe in which she was born a Princess, a Chief’s
daughter. She is very active for her people, and loses no opportunity
to urge them forward in the path to civilization. Recently she sent a
message to those Indians living in Inyo County, in this State, urging
them to send their children to school. A copy of this letter was sent
to the School Trustees of Inyo, and we invite the attention of our
readers to it. She says:--
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