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CONFRONTING RACE
Figure 13. One of the f e w ways that American Indians could get white sympathy
was by dressing up as whites expected and going on the stage giving lectures
and sometimes craft demonstrations to white audiences. The Piute chief and
reformer Sarah Winnemucca who lectured during the early 1880s and wrote
Life Among the Piutes: T h eir Wrongs and Claims (1883). Photograph undated, first
appeared in O. O. Howard, Famous I n dian Chiifs I have Known (1908). Courtesy
of the author.
