“I was a very small child when the first white people came into our country. They came like a lion, yes, like a roaring lion, and have continued so ever since, and I have never forgotten their first coming.” Sarah Winnemucca wrote those words in her 1883 autobiography, certainly the first book ever published by a Native American woman, and one of the first by any Indian in the nation. This civil rights leader, educator and tireless advocate for her Paiute tribe stands to this day as one o
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