{"id":418,"date":"2022-10-27T13:17:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T17:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aigenom.org\/?post_type=document&p=418"},"modified":"2023-01-03T11:56:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T17:56:12","slug":"excerpt-from-life-among-the-piutes-by-sarah-winnemucca-hopkins","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/aigenom.org\/document\/excerpt-from-life-among-the-piutes-by-sarah-winnemucca-hopkins\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200bExcerpt from “Life Among The Piutes” \u200bby Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins"},"content":{"rendered":"
Life among the Piutes<\/strong> Life among the Piutes<\/strong> …We went down, and Major Cochrane met us at the door and said , ” Life among the Piutes<\/strong> …We travelled all day. \u00a0It snowed all day long. We camped, \u00a0and that night a
\nBy Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
\nPage 77-78
\n<\/span>
\n…They said also that they would kill anything that came in their way, men, women and
\nchildren. The captains name was Wells. The place where they were going to is about three
\nhundred miles away. The days after they left were very sad hours, indeed. \u00a0Oh, dear
\nreaders, these soldiers had gone only sixty miles away to Muddy Lake, where my people
\nwere then living and fishing, and doing nothing to anyone. \u00a0The soldiers rode up to their
\nencampment and fired into it, and killed almost all the people that were there. \u00a0Oh, it is a
\nfearful thing to tell, but it must be told. \u00a0Yes, it must be told by me. \u00a0It was all old men,
\nwomen and children that were killed; for my father had all young men with him, at the sink of
\nCarson on a hunting excursion, or they would have been killed too.
\n…After the soldiers had killed all but some little children and babies still tied up in their
\nbaskets, the soldiers took them also, and set the camp on fire and threw them into the
\nflames to see them burn alive. \u00a0I had one baby brother killed there. \u00a0My sister jumped on
\nfathers best horse and ran away. \u00a0As she ran , the soldiers ran after her ; but , thanks be to
\nthe Good Father in the Spirit – land, my dear sister got away. This almost killed my poor
\npapa. Yet my people kept peaceful.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Page 205<\/span><\/p>\n
\nSarah, I am heartily sorry for you, but we cannot help it. We are ordered
\nto take your people to Yakima Reservation.”
\nIt was just a little before Christmas. My people were only given one week
\nto get ready in.
\nI said, ” What! \u00a0In this cold winter and in all this snow, and my people
\nhave so many little children? \u00a0Why, they will all die. \u00a0Oh, what can the
\nPresident be thinking about ? \u00a0Oh, tell me, what is he ? \u00a0Is he a man or
\nbeast ? \u00a0Yes, he must be a beast ; \u00a0if he has no feelings for my people ,
\nsurely he ought to have some for the soldiers.”
\n” I have never seen a president in my life and I want to know whether he
\nis made of wood or rock, for I cannot for once think that he can be a
\nhuman being. No human being would do such a thing as that, – send
\npeople across a fearful mountain in the midwinter.”
\n… I could not think of anything that could be so in-human as to do such
\na thing, – send people across mountains with snow so deep.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Page 209 and 210<\/span><\/p>\n
\nwoman became a mother ; and during the night the baby died, and was put
\nunder the snow. The next morning the mother was put into the wagon. She
\nwas almost dead when we went into camp. That night she too was gone, and
\nleft on the roadside , her poor body not even covered with the snow.
\nIn five days three more children were frozen to death, and another woman
\nbecame a mother. \u00a0Her child lived three days, but the mother lived.
\n… They had a kind of shed made to put us in. \u00a0You know what kind of shed
\nyou make for your stock in winter time. It was of that kind. \u00a0Oh, how we did
\nsuffer with cold. \u00a0There was no wood, and the snow was waist deep, and
\nmany died off just as cattle or horses do after travelling so long in the cold..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":419,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"template":"","yoast_head":"\n